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Trio of shootings investigated in downtown Montreal, St-Léonard, Westmount

In Westmount before midnight, shots were fired into the doors of a residence.

An ambulance outside a hospital.
An ambulance outside a hospital. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette

A trio of shootings in less than five hours Montreal Sunday night have left one man wounded and police examining crime scenes downtown and in St-Léonard and Westmount.

As of early Monday morning no arrests had been reported and the victim in one of the shootings was not co-operating with police.

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That victim, a 38-year-old man known to police, was shot during an altercation at the Atwater métro that broke out around 7 p.m. near the de Maisonneuve Blvd. entrance to the subway. The victim took refuge in the Alexis-Nihon shopping centre. He was wounded in the upper body and is expected to survive his injuries.

The second shooting occurred at 9 p.m. on Jean-Nicolet St. in a residential sector of St-Léonard. Officers answering a report of gunshots fired found spent cartridge casings at the scene and bullet impacts on parked vehicles and at least one building.

The third incident occurred around 11:30 p.m., when shots were fired into the doors of a residence on The Boulevard in Westmount. Police will question the residents of the home and examine the recordings of local surveillance cameras.