Police are seeking two or three suspects after a man in a wheelchair was shot dead Wednesday night in Terrebonne.
The man was crossing Yves Blais St. near the Le Gardeur Hospital when he was targeted in the attack at about 10:30 p.m..
Passing firefighters assisted the victim, who was pronounced dead at the nearby hospital.
At the time of the shooting, the victim was accompanied by his daughter and both were crossing from a restaurant to a nearby motel when the man was gunned down in a burst of gunfire, possibly from a machine gun, according to a variety of reports.
The victim was known to police and believe the attack might be gang-related.
The SQ provincial police is assisisting the Terrebonne force in the investigation.
According to La Presse newspaper, the victim was Richard Rousseau, 50, a onetime biker enforcer from Shawinigan who moved to Montreal after serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence for gangsterism and uttering death threats in 2001.
Seven other members of the same Hells Angels-related Blatnois club were also sentenced at the same time, mostly for assaulting small-time drug dealers in the Rimouski area.
