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Teen charged with murder in connection with 2021 triple homicide: Montreal police
Police tape blocks traffic at the scene of a shooting in Montreal's Riviere-des-Prairies borough on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. (Image courtesy of Antoinette Delli Compagni)
The Montreal police (SPVM) major crimes squad arrested another suspect in connection with a triple homicide in 2021.
On Aug. 2, 2021, five people were shot in a drive-by shooting on Perras Boulevard in the Riviere-des-Prairies neighbourhood.
Three of them died of their injuries.
Police arrested three men who were charged with first-degree murder in October of that year.
On Thursday, police arrested a minor, who was already in detention, and he was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
He remains behind bars and will return to court on July 26.
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