Upon entering the home of the alleged killer of Patricia Sirois on the evening of September 10, 2021 in Saint-Raymond, the police discovered an entire war arsenal ready for action in the former soldiers’ home.
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Loaded long guns, .357 revolvers, 9mm pistols, chests full of ammunition, the defendant’s weapon collection is enough to send shivers down your spine when you know how tragically his neighbor’s life ended.
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First, if the projectiles that hit Patricia Sirois and were found in her car are 9mm caliber, Martin Lévesque was arrested with a different weapon in a small wooded area near where the car stopped.
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When police arrested him, Lévesque was carrying an AR-15 long gun that was loaded and equipped with night vision goggles.
According to the Crown, the 50-year-old put his gun down on the police summons but reportedly resisted arrest.
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“My gun was pointed at him and he’s going to tell me several times, ‘Shoot me, go ahead and shoot me,'” revealed the first patrol officer to arrive at the scene, Agent Guillaume Belleau-Boutin, at Wednesday’s trial.
quantity of ammunition
Inside the residence, in the master bedroom, officers found an arsenal consisting of the 9mm handgun used in the murder, a .357 revolver and four other long guns.
Four of the six guns were loaded and ready for action.
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Another long gun was found in a box in the basement and another in a trunk.
As for the ammunition, according to the evidence presented at the beginning of the trial, the hiding places of Lévesque were numerous.
Batches of bullets were stored in iron boxes while ready-to-use magazines were stacked in wooden boxes scattered about the house, exposing the forensic identification technician who was photographing the crime scenes.
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“With guns we usually do them one at a time, but with ammunition, if I had done them one at a time I would still be here today,” Police Officer Danny Godin explained, describing the extent of the defendant’s ammunition reserves.
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Killed by six bullets
Patricia Sirois was shot dead in cold blood by her neighbor Martin Lévesque on September 10, 2021 on rue Marlène in Saint-Raymond, where she lived.
As the defendant’s car drove past the defendant’s home, the defendant fired six shots, hitting the family mother with four bullets in the head, one in the shoulder and one last in the back.
Disturbingly, the murder unfolded under the horrified gazes of the 35-year-old woman’s two young children.
However, the latter, who were seated in the back of the vehicle, were not injured, although a bullet lodged in the rear passenger-side door near an infant carrier.
The preliminary trajectory, established through the photographs submitted as evidence, shows that the bullet would have struck Patricia Sirois before crossing the front passenger seat and stopping in the back door.
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The projectile was found in the cup holder of the door.
Martin Lévesque admitted early in the trial that he was the one who fired the fatal shots.
However, he will not make himself liable to prosecution because of a mental disorder.
The former soldier, who has been deployed abroad several times, is to call upon the role of the post-traumatic stress disorder that is burdening him to explain the drama this evening.
It should be noted that the victim’s spouse is also a soldier. He was on duty in Latvia at the time of the tragedy.
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