Gunning for Jews in Montreal

"This is gruesome."

"We don't yet know enough to suggest the motivation of the shooter, but I know that neighbourhood. I stayed in that hotel two weeks ago."

"That is a heavily Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal." 

Ben Mulroney, national radio host

 

"Police officers showed up at our entrance because, obviously out of precaution, they have to secure the entire perimeter. And they broke the front entrance of the store."

"They went through our entire store, they made everyone get down on the ground [and leave their baskets behind. Everyone in the store was ordered to go to the loading dock area in the back where there are no windows]."

"We gave them food. We gave them water. I mean, it's not a fun situation to be in, but you don't choose whether or not this situation happens to you."

Nicholas Erimos, spokesperson for Supermarche PA

 

"We preferred to enlarge all of the crime scenes to be sure that we had the situation completely controlled."

"The threat is controlled. So the community is safe."

SPVM Chief Fady Dagher

Monday's shooting left Montreal police officer Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane dead. Michel Mizrahi, a civilian, was also killed during the incident in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press)

 

At around 3:15 p.m. the "armed threat alert" issued for the Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood in Montreal was lifted, in recognition of  the fact finally, that "the immediate threat to the public is no longer present". Police were uncertain whether or not one individual only was involved and there had been a police search for the possibility of a second suspect in the event that had locked down the neighbourhood, residents being told to remain indoors and lock up their premises, until further notice.

 

It began on Monday morning, when gunshots were heard in the direction of the Hilton Hotel. Soon after the frightening incident was concluded, videos began appearing on social media, showing a shootout unfolding outside the Supermarche PA close t  the Decarie Expressway and Rue Jean-Talon. "There seemed to be someone shooting in all directions", the manager of a paint store on Decarie Blvd, Jean-Pierre Maca, said after hearing gunshots. "It was frightening."

 

Michel  Mizrahi was a victim in the Montreal shooting on June 22, 2026. The Quebec coroner identified the alleged shooter as Seth Scott Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alberta  as the shooter. Photo courtesy The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

 

It is now known that the subsequent shootout between police and a long-gun-armed man on a rampage in that busy Montreal area -- largely known as a Jewish area of Montreal -- saw one responding police officer shot dead, as well as an Israeli rabbi who had been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, but his severe injuries took his life, nonetheless. Another police officer was shot and badly wounded, but she will survive, to everyone's relief. While the third person to die on scene was the shooter himself.

 

It had taken little time after an emergency call went out to police, for police squads to swarm the area,  uncertain what it was they were dealing with, the extent of the attacks and how many might be involved. As they arrived, they cautioned people to conceal themselves for safety inside the supermarket, and keep the doors closed. The supermarket building is also home to condominiums, where bullets had struck some windows.

 

This image was obtained by Radio-Canada, showing the suspect who appears to be on the move and holding a weapon. (Name withheld)

 

One witness had heard over a dozen gunshots before he began recording the event where he watched a man shooting into ground-floor businesses close to the hotel. One video in circulation recorded multiple gunshots from a balcony in the condominium building across from the Supermarche PA on de Courtrai Ave, while other videos showed police entering the grocery store. Broken windows could be seen above the store where other businesses and condominiums were located in the building as well.

 

St.Joseph's Oratory nearby was closed amide the melee. For much of the afternoon, the main thoroughfare Decarie Expressway remained closed in both directions. Shortly after 11:30 am. near the intersection of Trans-Island Ave. and Courtrai Ave. one of the officers had been fatally shot. 

 

"My sincere condolences to the family friends and colleagues of the police officer killed on duty in Cote-des-Neiges", conveyed Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada. "My thoughts are with the families of those who have died, the injured, the police force, and all those affected by this  tragedy", wrote Quebec Premier Christine Frechette online. The horrendous event, a symptom of the nation's governments at all levels, failing to respond to the swelling tide of Jew-hate that have overcome the land, incited courtesy of Middle Eastern immigrants/refugees/migrants and their cultural/religious antipathies.

 

Montreal Police exit the scene of an active shooting situation with a stretcher in Montreal on Monday, June 22, 2026. Evan Buhler/Montreal Gazette