Murder of Jayson Colin in 2022 | Searches carried out by police in Laval on Tuesday

Montreal police are conducting research in Laval on Tuesday in connection with a murder that occurred in the borough of Montreal-Nord in 2022. Jayson Colin, a possible collateral victim of a conflict between street gangs, was shot dead in the evening near a secondary school.

In a press release, the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) specifies that these searches will take place on the banks of the Mille-Îles River, in collaboration with the Sûreté du Québec.

On August 10, 2022, around 10:25 p.m., men were chatting in the parking lot of a high school located at the intersection of avenue P.-M.-Favier and rue de Charny. Two suspects then opened fire in their direction, before fleeing.

When they arrived on site, the police discovered Jayson Colin, seriously injured, in addition to projectile impacts on vehicles and shell casings on the ground.

The 26-year-old victim was transported to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. It was the 19th^e murder to occur in SPVM territory that year. Another man was also injured.

According to our information from several sources, Jayson Colin could have been a collateral victim of a conflict between a gang from Laval and a gang from Montreal North. The victim, a young man with no history involved in his community, was not connected to any criminal group or conflict and who could have found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Our sources believe that the murder of Jayson Colin could be a response to a homicide committed in Laval a few weeks earlier.

Anyone with details regarding this event is asked to contact 911 or their local station. A mobile command post was deployed by the SPVM on August 9 to collect information from the public.