Gang leader Arsène Mompoint was shot and killed in the late afternoon in Kanesatake indigenous territory, near Oka, La Presse has learned from several sources.

Mompoint is said to have been shot at least one round of a firearm in the Greenroom on St. Michael's Road, near where a large rally took place two weeks ago.
According to our information, Arsène Mompoint was also involved in the organization of this event.
Arsène Mompoint, 47, was released from prison last April after being arrested in an anti-drug investigation by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM).
During his release investigation, an investigator from the Organized Crime Division of the SPVM, Francis Derome, testified and said that Mompoint and his group were "contractors" for organized crime.
“Just before the summer of 2019, source information was that Mr. Mompoint was active in murder contracts, so find people to execute the contracts or do them himself. It comes up regularly with his name, in the middle, "said the investigator.

Arsène Mompoint had a long legal history, especially in theft and possession of weapons.
In June 2017, he was sentenced to 25 months in prison after being arrested with a gun.
During these procedures, another SPVM investigator revealed that Arsène Mompoint was linked to street gangs of red allegiance and that he had been the leader of a group that allegedly executed several contracts, including murders, for the crime. organized, especially the Mafia, in recent years.

The investigator also said that police believed Mompoint was seeking to take the place of influential gang leader Gregory Woolley following the latter's arrest in the Magot-Mastiff investigation by which the Sûreté du Québec beheaded Montreal organized crime in November 2015. Woolley is currently on parole.

In August 2019, Mompoint was shot in the arm during an attempted murder in the borough of Saint-Léonard. During the investigation into the release of his alleged attacker, a police witness said that Mompoint was then the subject of a lucrative contract on his head.
"One day or another, it will brew, it's inevitable," had confided, after the release of Mompoint in April, an investigator to La Presse, on condition of anonymity, because he is not authorized to talk to the media.
The investigation into the murder of Arsène Mompoint is being led by Crimes Against the Person investigators from the Sûreté du Québec.

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