Montreal police investigate suspected femicide after woman found dead

Montreal police are probing allegations of femicide following the discovery of a 44-year-old woman's body in an apartment in the city's Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough on Saturday. Emergency responders arrived at the scene at 1:45 p.m. and found the woman unresponsive. A 51-year-old man, with whom the woman had been in a relationship, was discovered sustaining serious injuries to his upper body.

He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, though his life was not deemed to be in imminent danger. Authorities describe the man as a suspect and assert that both he and the woman likely sustained injuries from a sharp object. This incident brings Montreal's homicide count for the year to 15, with 12 of those victims being women killed by current or former intimate partners, according to data from a Quebec network of domestic violence shelters.