Overview
- Officers who answered a 911 call on Monday in Côte‑des‑Neiges were met with gunfire, leaving 34‑year‑old Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, civilian Michael Moshe Mizrahi, and the suspected gunman dead while a second officer was seriously wounded and is now stable.
- Investigators seized a long gun at the scene and recovered a roughly 100‑page manifesto that multiple media and law‑enforcement sources say contains incel‑aligned, anti‑women language and other extremist grievances, but authorities have not established a motive.
- The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes has opened a formal inquiry into the police intervention and Quebec provincial police have launched a parallel criminal probe to examine both the shooting and any use of force by officers.
- Members of Montreal’s Jewish community are grieving Mizrahi’s death and there is public debate over whether he was struck by the attacker or by police return fire, an issue the BEI investigation is expected to clarify.
- Officials are reviewing circulating video, conducting forensic analysis of the document, and warning against speculation as the probes proceed; the BEI’s role is to independently investigate deaths or injuries linked to police actions and its findings could shape criminal or policy outcomes.