The police officer killed in the line of duty during the shooting in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges borough was a father with a second child on the way.
Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, leaves behind a young child and a pregnant wife, according to the president of the Montreal Police Brotherhood.
Yves Francoeur made those comments while speaking to TVA Nouvelles Tuesday morning.
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Benredouane’s death marked the first police officer killed in the line of duty in Montreal since 2002.
Benredouane, who had been an SPVM officer since 2021, and Michael Moshe Mizrahi were the victims of Monday morning’s shooting in Montreal. The suspect, who has yet to be identified, was killed in a shootout with police.
The attack triggered an active shooter alert and shelter-in-place order that lasted several hours.
Officers were called to Côte-des-Neiges around 11:35 a.m. after the report of a gun muzzle sticking out of the window of the Hilton Hotel near Trans Island and De Courtrai avenues.
The officers who arrived on scene were shot at while they were at street level, with the Montreal police chief saying it’s too early to describe the killings as a police ambush.
