Arrests made in connection with triple homicide in Rivière-des-Prairies

 The Aug. 2 attack was the deadliest in a series of shootings that plagued eastern Montreal for months.

A Montreal police investigator examines a bullet hole in a car at the scene of a shooting in Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies district on Tuesday Aug. 3, 2021.
A Montreal police investigator examines a bullet hole in a car at the scene of a shooting in Montreal’s Rivière-des-Prairies district on Tuesday Aug. 3, 2021. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

Two men were charged Wednesday in connection with a triple homicide that occurred two months ago in Rivière-des-Prairies, which proved to be the deadliest among a series of shootings that has plagued eastern Montreal and continued this week.

The men — Marlon Francisco Villa-Guzman, 25, of Montreal North, and Clifford Domercant-Barosy, 26, of Laval — appeared before a judge at the Montreal courthouse through a videoconference. They are charged with the first-degree murders of Jerry Willer Jean-Baptiste, 29, Jafferson Syla, 29, and Molière Dantes, 63. They are also charged with the attempted murders of Jean-Richard Milius and Alexandre Dunn.

The sixth charge both men face alleges they discharged a firearm toward people who were on a property on Perras Blvd., near the intersection of 53rd Ave.

All of the charges are related to a drive-by shooting carried out on Perras Blvd. in early August. It was by far the worst of a long series of shootings that rattled neighbourhoods in eastern Montreal throughout the summer.

Two days after the triple homicide, Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault stood outside Montreal city hall and announced the creation of a special police squad, headed by the Sûreté du Québec and including Montreal police investigators, dedicated to investigating the trafficking of firearms.

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