Drama twist: a new suspect is arrested for the triple murder in the Rivière-des-Prairies district of Montreal, almost three years after the facts. The event, for which one man has already pleaded guilty and three others are awaiting trial, shook the population and triggered the Centaure strategy aimed at combating armed violence.
The suspect was already incarcerated in connection with another case at the time of his arrest Thursday by the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM). We cannot name the young man since he was a minor in August 2021, during the triple homicide.
According to our police sources, the individual is a member of a street gang in Montreal North.
He appeared in youth chambers in Montreal on Friday morning and faces three counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder with a firearm.
The event cost the lives of Jerry Willer Jean-Baptiste, known as Mackazoe, Jefferson Syla, alias Soldier, and Molière Dantes. Two other men, Jean Richard Milius and Alexandre Dunn, were injured.
According to information at the time, a long-standing rivalry between the Profit Kollektaz street gangs of Rivière-des-Prairies and the 43 of Montreal-North would be the background to the triple homicide that occurred on August 2, 2021.
Marlon Francisco Villa-Guzman, the driver involved in the violent affair, pleaded guilty last May to a reduced charge of manslaughter and received 10 years in prison. He then claimed to have had no idea that his co-defendants, whose trial is scheduled for this fall, were going to shoot in the direction of a group that day.
The prosecutor in the case of the young person arrested on Thursday, Mr. Simon Robin, filed a notice of imposition of a sentence applicable to adults. It was Me Alexandra Longueville who represented the alleged murderer during his appearance.
The proceedings will continue on July 26.
