Overview
- Police say 55-year-old Chong Woo Kim, owner of the Fleur Bleue convenience store on Berri Street near the Laurier metro station, was found unresponsive in his shop and pronounced dead at the scene.
- After a manhunt that focused on the metro system, officers arrested the 35-year-old suspect inside Complexe Desjardins a few kilometres from the store.
- Gellatly made a brief appearance at the Montreal courthouse on Friday and is scheduled to return to court on May 4.
- Court and parole records detail earlier violent convictions, including a 2012 Vancouver stabbing that resulted in a 2015 seven-year sentence for manslaughter and aggravated assault.
- Records also describe in-custody assaults and subsequent Quebec convictions in recent years, including an eight-month 2022 sentence for animal cruelty.