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The mayor of Montreal is trying to reassure residents their
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city is still safe despite yesterday's deadly shooting. A police
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officer and a civilian were killed. A suspect is also dead.
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The mayor spoke to reporters earlier near the scene of
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the shooting in the borough of Cotenesh.
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I'm very surprised. I mean, Montreal, when was the last
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time we had an event like this? I mean, and
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at some point, I think Montreal, at some point it's
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hit very hard by this because it hits on that
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sentiment of security and that something can happen in our
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cities like that. Of course, it will take some time
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to recover, but again, I want to be as sure
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Montrealer is that MONTREALI is safe.
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The CBC Sarah Levitt was at the news conference earlier.
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She joins US Now Live from the neighborhood where the
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shooting happened. Sarah, the mayor and other local leaders spoke
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to reporters. What was their message.
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Yeah, you know, we heard her reassuring citizens, but there
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was also an acknowledgment about just how shocking this incident
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yesterday was and traumatizing in fact, you know, just a
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reminder of what happened. At around eleven thirty, police received
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a call about a shooter with a gun pointing out
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a window. When they arrived on the scene, the first
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officers arrived, they immediately exchanged gunfire with the suspect. The
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police officer was killed, a bystander was killed, and so
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too was the suspect. So the mayor just reassuring people
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that although this terrible thing happened, reiterating what the police
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chief has said, it was an isolated incident, security in
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the city remains so, but also acknowledging just how deeply
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affected people in the neighborhood would be. You know, this
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is a complex, an area that had a park. It
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has high rises with condos and a hotel, businesses on
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the first and second floors, largely densely populated, so lots
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of people affected, many people in lockdown
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for a really
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long time. Here's here's what the mayor had to say.
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I'm speaking you all, speaking with you all today with
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a very heavy heart. What we've lived in the last
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twenty four hours. I don't wish it on anyone. I
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think that everyone can agree with me today that what
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we just lived in kug was a complete nightmare. It
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was a tragedy, y that we're going to be living
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with for the next few months. For sure. As a
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community in kod anybody that knows our borough, they know
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that we are a borough that is dynamic, that is vibrant,
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that is welcoming. You know, we have sevent of our
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population is from immigrant background. We are just a community
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that we are so proud of.
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And so so. Right now, the perimeter around where this happened,
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it is getting a little bit smaller. But an investigation continues,
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not by Montreal Police but in fact by the Provincial
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Police Watchdog who is also being assisted by provincial police.
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And Sarah, what have we learned about the victims.
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Yeah, we're getting more testimony from about these people who died.
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Of course, talking about thirty four year old Mohammed lamin
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ben Raduan, he was the police officer, one of the
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first to arrive on the scene that was killed. Learning
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that he had been a police officer for about five years,
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that he was from this neighborhood, went to a school
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near here, the borough mayrsing. He was well known in
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the community and well liked. Also hearing more about sixty
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eight year old Michel Mizrahi, a member of the Jewish community,
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really well known again also really well liked, and we
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spoke with his rabbi who had this to say about him.
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Just yesterday. There's a woman with her twitter, I think
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her baby walking and he went to this woman, he says,
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run away this shooting. He was making sure that she
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will understand that he is a shooting. She has to
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run away. I spoke to her this morning. She says,
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if I'm alive today is because of him, me and
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mine baby.
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So a testimony of a selfless act there from the
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bystander who was caught in the crossfire.
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All right, what about the suspect, What do we know
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about him?
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Quebec's corner has officially identified him as as a twenty
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five year old Seth Scott Hatfield from Lethbridge, Alberta. We
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do know that he had a manifesto entitled June twenty second,
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which was yesterday, of course, and that manifesto espoused wide
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range of views, a lot of anti feminist female thoughts,
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but also anti capitalism, anti liberalism, and also bringing up
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issues or bringing up the need for a violent revolution,
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also raging against the pornography, industry, so very wide ranging.
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Their police have not said much, but we do know
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that the Lethbridge Police have said they are assisting the
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Police Watchdog in this investigation. Earlier in the day, Lethbridge
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Police had sent out a release talking about a high
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risk search in an area of Lethbridge. Holmes were evacuated
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for potential weapons on the scene. Now they have not
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confirmed if that's related to this investigation, but as I
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said later this afternoon, they had said they are assisting
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the Police Washdog. You know, more and more information coming out.
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Police are remaining quite tight lipped about this, but as
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we have it, we will share it.
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Sarah, thank you. That is the CBC. Sarah Levitt live
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in Montreal.