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| Two Sud-Ouest Shootings InvestigatedPosted 09/Oct/2007 15:39:00 by Slavito Two attempted murders which happened hours (and mere
blocks) from each other are investigated in Little Burgundy
(Borough Sud-Ouest), La Presse reports.
According to La Presse, the police are investigating the
attacks looking for a possible link between the two. The
teenagers injured in the shootings are not cooperating.
The first of the shootings occured at a housing project located
at 625 rue Georges-Vanier.
According to the residents, the building (which is reserved, in theory,
for the elderly) has been actively used by drug addicts for about a year.
There's been an increase in
violence in the neighbourhood
this year with previous shootings occurring in January and July.
Some residents fear that a drug-related gang war may have started in the
neighbourhood.
The article quotes Marc Ouimet, a UofM criminologist as saying that
the illegal drug market in the borough of Sud-Ouest has for a long time
been controlled by Jamaican street gangs.
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