Montreal murder roundup 2015 - 30 killed: still too many dying

Larez

 Thirty murders were committed in Montreal in 2015, about the same as the two years prior.
   The total is almost identical to 2013 and 2014 which saw 27 and 28 murders committed.
   For a while it looked like the total might not even hit 20 but a spate of murders hit late in the year, causing an unfortunate spike.   Note that this data is subject to change as investigations progress.

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Bobby Pellicano

1- Bobby Pellicano, 26, was stabbed to death at a private party at 1121 St. Catherine W. in the early morning of January 25. Pellicano reportedly stopped the party after he noticed that a piece of his jewelry had been stolen, which led to a confrontation with Love-Emmanuel Luberesse, 23, who allegedly killed Pelicano in front of about 40 guests.

Colton St-Pierre Louis, 26

Cronier

2 Pascal Cronier was stabbed to death at his home 2700 Georges V. in Montreal East during a dispute at 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 11. Colton St. Pierre Louis, 26 was charged with second degree murder.

Bourgeois

3-Sex offender Mario Bourgeois, 53, was shot dead on Feb. 11, 2015 at 6:45 a.m. on 15 th and Belanger. A gun with a silencer was found left near the sidewalk where Bourgeois was found.

Victim Paul Brown

4-Paul Brown, 57, was stabbed to death at his home on Manning

Quannaaluk

 in Verdun on Feb. 12. He had just returned from a visit to the courthouse to deal with sex assault charge dealing with minors. His friend Jessie Quannaaluk, 55, was arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 17, and charged with second-degree murder.

Marina Porco

Julio Porco

5- Giulio Porcu, 37,  was stabbed to to death at his home on Jeanne Mance near Van Horne on Feb. 25. His sister Marina Porcu, 36, was charged. The two had reportedly been arguing over an inheritance.

Saintilus

 6-Tilus Saintilus, 20, was shot dead with eight bullets on Everett Street near 2nd avenue in St.Michel on Feb. 26 at about 10:45 p.m. He was reportedly part of the blue-affiliated Robert housing project crew. He was walking back from a corner store when shot. His criminal record was related to attempting to purchase large amounts of alcohol with a fake card.

Nguyen

7-Ngoc Quang Nguyen, 30, was shot in the head his luxury BMW SUV near 4858 Robert street in St. Leonard in the early hours of March 10. Nguyen was a landed immigrant who came to Canada as a child but was put in a foster home at the age of nine. He had a lengthy criminal record and authorities had ordered his deportation from Canada. The murderer was inside the car at the time. It appears to be a professional hit.






 8 -Jean-Benoit Dore, 51, was stabbed to death at about 8:30 p.m on April 7 on Pigeon Ave. at a duplex in Montreal North. His friend Onur Yilmaz, from Turkey, was charged.

Levac

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Lachance

9-Serge Levac, 54, a drug dealer who had once been acquitted of raping a woman with Downs Syndrome, was killed in his drug den on May 28 on Robillard south of St. Catherine. Daisy Lachance, 29, was charged.

Letourneau

Larez

10-Charlie Cecilia Garcia Larez, 36, who recently moved to Canada from Venezuela and was pregnant, was found at dead at her home on Goyer near Cote des Neiges on May 30. Raynald Letourneau, 46, was sought before being captured and charged with the killing as well as with having sex with her after death. Letourneau, who had a long criminal past, pleaded guilty. As a child, on 6 Jan., 1975 Letourneau saw his father Jean-Paul Quintal murder his mother Normal Youance, 25. Quintal said he was jealous that Youance had started seeing an older, wealthier man. Quintal was sentenced to just two years for his misdeed.

Filali

11-Jimmy Sanches Ramos, 26, was killed on June 24 at Pine and Clark following a huge fight in a bar. Wassim Filali, 20, and Sebastien Nicu Baltatu Casu pleaded guilty to manslaughter in August 2017 and were sentenced to five years each.

Angutiguluk

 Benjamin

12 -Nellie Angutiguluk, 29, was found dead at her home at 7225 de  Nancy in Cote des Neiges on May 18. Kwasi Alfred Benjamin was charged with the murder.

Adam Zembowicz

Rafal Zembowicz

13-Adam Zembowicz, a 10-month old baby, was killed at home in Anjou by father Rafal Zembowicz, who then hanged himself. Zembowicz had been undergoing marital strife with his longstanding wife of 20 years, also a Pole.

Fontanelli

Higgins

14-Mother-of-two Samantha Higgins, 22, went missing near Lise and Newman in LaSalle while walking home from a friend's place in the early morning of July 7. She was later found dismembered far from the city. Her spouse Nicholas Fontanelli, 22, was charged.

Loures

15 and 16 -  Kevin Alves Loures, 24 and Guilano Davance, 26, were killed in a brawl on the Main near Prince Arthur on August 2. Keyshell Deranks Pierre was charged with the killing.  Jean Francois Felix 30, Marc Evans Jeantilhomme, 23, Stanley Casimir, 23, were among those charged in connection with the incident but a fourth suspect was charged with murder.

Saninga

17-Serge Ngabo Saninga, 21, was killed on August 23 in a drive-by shooting near Robert and 25th.The victim, a Congolese Montrealer, was misidentified as a gang member. In fact he was a blameless victim and many took to streets in a vigil. An emotional funeral also took place for the victim.









18- Donald Cesar, 22, was shot dead in a car at Fortin and Gouin in Montreal North on Sept 4 at about 11 pm

19-Edwidge Jacques, 25, a drug dealer, was shot dead in his car at Lacordaire near Crevier at 1:45 a.m. on September 23.

Campellone

20-Marco Claudio Campellone, 24, was shot dead near 8773 Maurice Duplessis near Alexis Carrel in RdP at 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 18.  Campellone had been shot one year earlier in the arm a block away two years earlier nearby.

Gordon Gray

21  - A 25-year-old man died after being stabbed in LaSalle on Sept. 24 at 5:30 p.m. He was found lying near John F. Kennedy St. and Dollard St.with what turned out to be fatal stab wounds.


22- Edwin Johnson, 48, was stabbed to death at Viger Square on September 27. Paul Evans Gordon Gray, 36, was charged while Tamara Chandler, 35, was charged with being an accessory after the fact. The death was likely the result of a drug conflict.

23- A 27-year-old man was shot dead at the famous drug den at 3629 St. Catherine E. near Joliette on Oct. 21 at about 8:30 p.m.

Iancono

24- Domenico Iancono, 56, was found in the trunk of his Mercedes Benz at Desy and Farly in Montreal North on Oct. 30 after going missing on Oct. 25.

Larocque

Gloutney

25-Lee Larocque, 38, was stabbed to death at the home of Philippe Gloutney, 42, on Sherbrooke
near 14th in Lachine on Nov. 7.
Larocque's 55-year-old mother was also stabbed in what was described as a family dispute. Gloutney reportedly had drinking issues and a criminal record for theft. and conjugal violence and had a drinking problem.

Barnes

26- George Berry, in his 30s, was stabbed to death at a home on Maurice in Ile Bizard. Steve Barnes, 32, was charged with second-degree murder.

Tukkiapik 

27- Adam Qumaluk, 32, was stabbed to death early on Dec 18 on Ste. Catherine near Fort after a fight continued from inside the Sports Station bar. Bobby Tukkiapik, 30, was charged with second degree murder.











28- Francois Girard, 59, was found dead in a fire on Dezery near Rachel. Police later determined he had been killed.

Tremblay

29--Alexandre Tremblay, 22, was shot to death on Iberville north of Villeray, on Monday Dec. 21 at around 6:15 p.m. Tremblay was part of the Robert housing project faction of the blue street gang. He and his Chilean girlfriend both sported tattoos representing American street gangs.

Victim Joey

30- Joey Grace, 20, was shot dead at about 12:40 a.m. Saturday Dec. 26 at in St. Michel, near the corner of Louvain and 13th.  He did not have a criminal record. The killing was likely related to the ongoing street gang feud which saw several other non-fatal drive-by shootings during the same week.





   An earlier version of this article stated that Helene Leduc, the SAQ cashier shot in 2010 and who died in January 2015, had been classified as a murder victim. Indeed she was but a subsequent review reversed that decision in May, so that is not longer considered a 2015 homicide file.
   Here is an unofficial list I compiled of past murder totals in Montreal 1987 - 70, 1988 - 62, 1989 - 103, 1990 - 70, 1991 - 77, 1992 - 76, 1993 - 71, 1994 - 52,  1995 - 59,  1996 - 54, 1997 - 49,  1998 - 41, 1999 - 52, 2000 - 49 2001 - 66, 2002 - 48, 2003 - 41, 2004 - 43, 2005 –35, 2006 –43, 2007 –43, 2008 –29, 2009 - 31 2010 - 37, 2011 - 35, 2012 - 35 2013-27, 2014-28.