A man almost died after being stabbed by an individual to whom he went to retrieve his lost cat, which then caused a lot of commotion to find the suspect, Friday morning, in the Montreal area -North.
According to our information, the victim’s cat ran away in the morning and its owner started looking for it in the neighborhood.
He then allegedly located him while he was standing on the frame of a window of a home on Boulevard Saint-Michel Fleury Est.
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The man in his forties who wanted to recover his beloved animal allegedly knocked on the suspect’s door, telling him he wanted to go get the animal perched at his window.
The tenant then allegedly brandished a “20-centimeter knife” before stabbing his victim in the stomach.
The man then decided to go to the hospital on his own, but on the way, he collapsed on the sidewalk.
It was a passerby who found him seriously injured, semi-conscious.
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The victim was rushed to hospital, where doctors feared for his life for some time.
However, they managed to stabilize his condition, so that his life was no longer threatened at the end of the morning.
After the crime, the attacker took refuge in his apartment and a vast police operation was set in motion to catch him.
Heavily armed police surrounded the residential building.
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From his hospital bed, the stabbed man made it clear to the police that he did not wish to press charges.
This refusal to collaborate therefore put an end to the current operation.
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The investigation will nevertheless continue in this case, the authorities said.
-With Kevin Crane-Desmarais, TVA Nouvelles
