Eleven suspects who have been all youths on the time Nooran Rezayi was shot and killed by Longueuil police final fall are going through costs as a part of a parallel investigation into the occasions that preceded his demise.
The accused, then aged 13 to 17, are going through costs that embody conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit forcible confinement, conspiracy to commit assault, and possession of a weapon with a harmful intent.
Chief Insp. David Shane with the SPVM instructed a press convention the costs are linked to alleged offences that prolonged into the day earlier than the 15-year-old’s demise on Sept. 21, 2025.
“We’re speaking about conspiracy, however there aren’t any costs associated to injuring an individual,” Shane mentioned.
5 of the suspects have been arrested underneath warrants whereas six others have been charged by summons. The arrests adopted searches at multiple locations on Montreal’s South Shore — together with Belœil, Brossard, Candiac, Longueuil and Saint-Philippe — on the finish of February. The accused are scheduled to look earlier than Quebec’s youth court docket by late August or early September.
The arrests and costs stem from a Montreal police (SPVM) investigation into the occasions that prompted the intervention by Longueuil police that resulted in Rezayi’s demise.
“There’s a purpose why the cops in Longueuil have been dropped at the scene of the investigation. In order that half is what the SPVM investigated on,” Shane mentioned.
Officers have been responding to a 911 name a few group of youths reportedly armed in a residential neighbourhood of Longueuil. Quebec’s police watchdog mentioned the one gun seized on the scene belonged to the officer who shot Rezayi. Police later seized a baseball bat, a backpack and ski masks from the scene, however no sharp-edged weapons.
Insp. Shane couldn’t reveal what number of weapons have been seized on the crime scene. “What I can let you know is that the costs don’t embody possession of a firearm as such,” he instructed reporters. “So, carrying a weapon in a harmful demise is far broader in scope.”
A lawyer representing Rezayi’s household, which has filed a $2.2-million lawsuit in opposition to the Metropolis of Longueuil and its police pressure, was sad with how tight-lipped Shane was on the press convention.
“There’s not a lot info that was given by the cops concerning what really occurred,” Fernando Belton instructed CityNews. “We haven’t realized something new, serving to us to make clear why Nooran died on September twenty first.
“Press conferences are often made with the intention to give related info and reply questions, and one of many issues that we’ve got observed is that… virtually each query was answered by the truth that they couldn’t reply the query. So I’m elevating the query, why did we make a press convention if we weren’t in a position to reply the related questions concerning what occurred?”
The SPVM investigation got here on the request of Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), which completed its investigation into the capturing in March. The BEI submitted its report back to Quebec prosecutors, which can decide whether or not prison costs are warranted.
Insp. Shane defined the BEI had info main them to consider an investigation was vital into the occasions previous the Longueuil police intervention. Nevertheless the BEI doesn’t have the mandate to conduct any such investigation, as its function is to independently monitor police work.
The SPVM didn’t report back to the BEI however quite on to prosecutors, which approved the costs. The inspector additionally acknowledged that SPVM investigators didn’t meet with Longueuil cops in the middle of their investigation.
Earlier this month, Quebec Minister of Public Safety Ian Lafrenière launched an administrative inquiry into the Longueuil police intervention following a request by Longueuil Mayor Catherine Fournier final 12 months.
The inquiry focuses “completely” on what occurred between Rezayi’s demise and the arrival of the BEI investigators, which have been notified 96 minutes after the teenager died.
–With information from La Presse Canadienne
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