The events occurred shortly after 9 a.m. near a business located at the corner of boulevard Saint-Martin and rue de Blois, in a residential area of the Duvernay sector.
Half a dozen shots were reportedly fired. The police found casings.
According to our information, after the attack of which he was the victim, Del Balso would have moved to a café he frequents regularly on Bellerose Boulevard in Laval.
Investigators from the Organized Crime Division of the Service de police de Laval (SPL) are on the scene.
Cocaine and sports betting

Formerly associated with the Sicilian clan of the Montreal mafia, Francesco Del Balso was sentenced to 15 years in prison for gangsterism, trafficking and importing cocaine in the wake of the major Coliseum operation carried out by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in November 2006.

The evidence had shown that Del Balso was one of the Mafia's cocaine import managers at Trudeau Airport and one of the organization's sports betting directors, whose profits are said to have reached more than 26 million in a little over a year, according to a police expert.
In May 2017, while he was on parole, individuals broke into his home in Laval, presumably to kill him. But the mafioso was absent and the suspects manhandled his family members before leaving without fulfilling their contract.
In October 2018, Del Balso threatened TVA journalist Félix Séguin and his parole was suspended for a fourth time. He was then sentenced to one month in prison.
The last time Del Balso made headlines was last September, when Laval police arrested him on allegations of extortion of a priest

But Del Balso was released a few hours later and has not been charged in this case.
According to police sources, Del Balso would today be more associated with bikers than with the mafia. He would be very close to the Hells Angels Martin Robert and Stéphane Plouffe, considered by the police to be among the most influential individuals in Montreal organized crime.