Montreal’s mayor says extra gun management is required to forestall shootings just like the one which noticed three individuals die, together with a police officer and a civilian, on Monday.
Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says extra rules on gun possession, particularly with regards to the nation’s metropolises, is required.
“How can somebody, even at present in 2026, choose up a rifle, go right into a public avenue, and shoot individuals?” she informed a press convention Tuesday.
“What I need to be certain that of is that we tackle gun possession. That we tackle the truth that, as soon as once more at present, we discover ourselves with individuals who have weapons and might be discovered on the streets of Montreal attacking individuals, like we noticed yesterday. That worries me.”
Officers responding to the report of a gun muzzle protruding of the window of a Côte-des-Neiges lodge on Monday morning have been met with gunfire.
Montreal police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, a 34-year-old who had been with on the pressure since 2021, was killed, in addition to civilian Michael Moshe Mizrahi.
The shooter, recognized as 25-year-old Seth Scott Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alta., additionally died within the gunfire.
The SPVM police chief described Hatfield’s weapon as a long-range firearm. There was no indication but about how the suspect acquired it.
Montreal’s mayor says she thinks current laws “can go additional.”
“I do know it’s tough as a result of weapons typically will not be solely… in lots of areas they’re for searching or for Indigenous communities, however in a metropolis like Montreal, we have to have a greater management on what’s occurring within the streets, gun management. And I’m positive that our federal authorities, it’s one thing that we are able to discuss and see how can we higher work on getting our residents are extra secure, particularly on gaining access to these weapons.”
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