Incident filming in Canada injured four. The culprit is still being sought. Following this and another firearm-related incident, two Montreal-area colleges were closed on Friday (11/11) local time with thousands of students inside.
Reported by news agency AFPSaturday (11/12/2022), at 5:30 p.m. local time Friday, gunshots were heard in a park across from Collège Montmorency in Laval, suburbs MontrealPolice spokeswoman Geneviève Major told AFP.
The four people who were shot took refuge on campus and were later taken to hospital. The injuries they sustained would not be life threatening.
The university, attended by nearly 10,000 students and faculty, remained locked down overnight as police swarmed the area in search of the perpetrators. filming.
Mayor Stéphane Boyer tweeted that a police operation was “in progress”. Meanwhile, television footage showed parents of students crowding the streets around campus after rushing to the scene.
Earlier, a 19-year-old man wearing a bulletproof vest was arrested at a college about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Montreal and charged with uttering threats.
Students and staff on the Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu campus told local media that they had been ordered to stay in the lecture halls and turn off the lights for most of the day while police operations were taking place outside.
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