Montreal police consider violent deaths a murder-suicide, confirm seventh homicide of 2021

MONTREAL -- Montreal police (SPVM) are considering the violent death of a woman in the St. Leonard borough the seventh homicide of 2021.

Police were working on two hypotheses after the a 52-year-old man and 40-year-old woman were found stabbed to death in a taxi Friday morning.

Police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant confirmed Saturday that officers are considering it a murder-suicide.

Police said Friday a citizen called 911 after discovering the bodies in a taxi around 5:25 a.m. on the corner of Dujarie and Le Courbusier streets near Pie-XII Park.

Police pronounced both people dead upon arriving on the scene.

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  Montreal police (SPVM) are investigating after a man and a woman in their 40s were stabbed and killed and found in a taxi.