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Three shooting incidents in a three-hour span left one dead and three others in critical condition late Wednesday and early Thursday.

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Montreal police announced that they have made arrests in connection with one of the incidents, which occurred between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. Thursday in Pointe St-Charles, Montreal West and the borough of LaSalle. An incident in which a 19-year-old man was killed happened around 2 a.m. Thursday in Montreal West when three people in a car were headed toward the corner of Ronald Drive and Avon Rd. were targeted by gunfire from a yet-to-be-determined location. The driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 17-year-old passenger was seriously injured. The third person in the vehicle had fled by the time police arrived. A woman who identified herself as Rachel and lives near the scene of the shooting in West Montreal told the Montreal Gazette that she was just going to bed at about 2 a.m. when she heard two loud “pops” and went outside just in time to see her neighbor. in the street calling 911. A car carrying at least two people crashed into a parked vehicle, he added.

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“It’s very scary,” he said. “I ran locking our windows because my children were sleeping and I didn’t know where this (third) person ran. My children play on this street — there are many children on the street, there is a daycare center here.” Rachel said that after sunrise the crime scene remained in the street and she had to explain to her two youngest children, aged 10 and 11, what had happened, if only because the scene of the murder was clearly visible from the window of her daughter’s bedroom. “They could be seen putting … a black bag into a black vehicle. I had to explain to my kids that what they were seeing was someone shot and killed on their street.” The killing is being investigated as the 14th homicide this year on the island of Montreal.

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The suspects were taken into custody not far from the scene of the fatal shooting and are expected to be questioned by investigators. About three hours earlier, around 11 p.m. Wednesday, two men, ages 18 and 20, were found critically injured by gunshots at the corner of Ash Ave. and Dick-Irvin St. near Le Ber Park in Pointe St-Charles. Several shell casings were found at the scene and police believe the shootings occurred after a dispute between two groups degenerated. The shootings happened just meters away from a daycare center and several residences. As of Thursday afternoon, both men were listed in critical but stable condition. At 12:15 a.m., shots were fired from a moving car toward a bar on the corner of Dollard Ave. and Saguenay St. at LaSalle. No injuries were reported, but at least one bullet was found in the building. Crime scenes have been set up at the scene of each shooting. It remained unclear early Thursday if the incidents are connected.

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