A 30-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being shot late Tuesday in an apartment building in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges niehgbourhood.
Responding to a 911 call at around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, Montreal police discovered the injured man in an apartment on Queen Mary Road near the intersection of Décarie Boulevard.
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The man was transported to hospital in serious condition with a lower body gunshot wound in the leg.
Police say his life is no longer in danger and in a statement credit first responders for saving the man’s life by applying a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
There were no suspects at the scene and investigators are trying to determine the exact circumstances that led to the man’s injury.
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