MONTREAL A young man is in the hospital after being shot in Laval Sunday night. Laval police (SPVL) responded around 6:30 p.m Sunday night after a call about a shooting on 75th Ave. in the Chomedey district. Laval police investigating a shooting on 75th Avenue near Cartier in Chomedy that sent a man in his 2Os to hospital. @CTVMontrealpic.twitter.com/IPemJRZOfi Cosmo Santamaria (@cosmoCTV) May 3, 2021 Police said the victim is a man in his 20s who is known to their services and he was not cooperating with investigators. He was taken to hospital where he is recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.
Hundreds gathered in defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew that took effect Sunday night. However, the atmosphere quickly soured as a few protesters lit a garbage fire in Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Square