Sûreté du Québec (SQ) police are helping investigators in Longueuil, Que., with a double homicide from Friday evening just south of Montreal.
The SQ dispatched a mobile command centre on Saturday in the parking lot of a strip-mall where the killings took place. A 42-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man were shot dead around 8:15 p.m.
Police say they found their bodies close to each other on the ground.
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Provincial police issued a statement saying they were brought into the investigation because of the severity of the crime and due to the current context of gun violence in the region.
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Initial information suggests the victims were targeted by gunfire from a vehicle that fled the scene before officers arrived.
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There have been no arrests and investigators are trying to determine if the people involved knew each other and whether the shooting was a settling of accounts.
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