QUEBEC--A convicted cop killer who disappeared from a Montreal halfway house is on the lam and police say he's quickly committed two armed robberies.
Pierre Ouellet didn't return to a home in Montreal last week and, in the two days that followed, police say he obtained a handgun and robbed a pair of Quebec City grocery stores on Thursday and Friday.
Ouellet was sentenced to life in prison for the 1986 slaying of a Montreal police officer, Claude St-Laurent. He had been pulled over and was able to disarm the constable before shooting him with his own service revolver near Montreal's Olympic Stadium.
It appears that a quarter-century behind bars has failed to rehabilitate him, according to police.
Quebec City police say they have surveillance video showing him brandishing a gun at the grocery stores.
They says he is armed and dangerous.
