The shots that rang out in Saint-Léonard on Thursday evening, near a school, are of concern to parents in the area who fear for the safety of their children.
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“We are no longer going to let them go play in the schoolyard like that, we don’t know when they will come back to shoot,” says Mirlande Jean-Pierre, a mother of two children who does not hesitate to qualify the event. of “traumatic”.
Around 6 p.m. Thursday, explosions were heard at the intersection of Belcourt and Honoré-Mercier streets, a stone’s throw from Gabrielle-Roy elementary school.
In a parking lot
According to witnesses interviewed by The newspaperthe shooter allegedly opened fire in the parking lot towards another person, who then fled.
“We have children playing in this schoolyard there, it could really have happened one day when they were on their bicycles in the parking lot”, explains a resident who fears a stray ball.
Precisely, one of the shots ended its course on a neighboring residence on Thursday. Its occupant, however, does not worry too much. “We are not worried. The bullet was not aimed at us,” she said.
But families are alarmed that shots could have been fired so early in the evening. “My teenagers told me that they no longer wanted to go outside now so as not to be targeted”, laments Hilda Castro.
“We can die at any time now,” exclaims Mirlande Jean-Pierre.
A hotspot
The area has changed dramatically in the past three years, according to residents who describe it as hotspot. Transactions in cars with tinted windows would now occur there daily, deplore citizens.
– With QMI Agency
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com