Montreal police have arrested a man in connection with a murder in LaSalle in 2007.
James Gould, 42, who was already incarcerated in Drummondville, is expected to be charged with first-degree murder.
A 24-year-old man was found stabbed to death on the afternoon of Feb. 8, 2007, in LaSalle, in front of a building on Stirling Square. It was the sixth murder of 2007.
The SPVM says the cold case investigation led to Gould’s arrest thanks in part to the scientific re-analysis of several pieces of evidence.
“Various investigative techniques were also deployed by the team dedicated to unsolved murders to corroborate evidence gathered over the years,” the SPVM wrote in a news release.
Montreal police arrested Gould in October 2025 in front of an apartment building in Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Gould, who was on parole at the time, had been the subject of an arrest warrant after he stopped checking in with his community correctional centre three months earlier.
Gould was previously convicted of manslaughter in the 2007 killing of Dorval teenager Karina Esquivel.
