The bullet-wounded man who found refuge in a hotel in the borough of Saint-Leonard last night is Arsene Mompoint, a prominent Montreal gang leader known to police for executing mafia contracts and been involved in drug trafficking.
This is what sources told La Presse even if the SPVM refuses to confirm the identity of the victim.
For the moment, the circumstances and exact location of the attempted murder remain unknown. At approximately 1:40 am, a call was made to 911 inviting police and ambulance attendants to a hotel located at the corner of Jarry Street and Lacordaire Boulevard, where a man with bullets had just arrived to obtain information. ugly.
According to our information, Mompoint was injured in the shoulder. He was in a semi-conscious state when help arrived at the scene. He was transported to the hospital where, at the latest news, he rests out of danger.
Head of Unit 44
Arsène Mompoint, 46, is a member of a Red Street gang and leader of a group that has reportedly executed several contracts for organized crime, particularly the mafia, in recent years.
Mompoint was also close to Harry Mytil, acting chief of Unit 44 according to police sources, shot dead in 2013.
The same investigator had given the name of a mafia clan leader for whom Mompoint allegedly worked, but he is banned from publication.
The investigator also said the police believed Mompoint was seeking to take the place of the influential gang leader Gregory Woolley following the arrest of the latter in the November 2015 Magot-Mastiff Inquiry.
In June 2017, Mompoint was sentenced to 25 months for possession of a weapon.
He has also been arrested in recent months in a major narcotics investigation conducted by the Organized Crime Division of the City of Montreal Police Department.
Investigators will try to determine if the attack on Mompoint could be related to this case or revenge or settlement of accounts motivated by contracts made on behalf of the mafia in the past.
