Chute-Saint-Philippe: The son who allegedly stabbed his father accused of murder

A man from Chute-Saint-Philippe, in the Laurentians, is accused of murder after he allegedly stabbed his father to death during a family argument which degenerated Tuesday morning.

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“He caused the death of Luc Desjardins, thus committing second degree murder,” we can read in the act of denunciation from the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP), whose Journal got a copy.

Mathieu Bellemare-Desjardins, 41, appeared Wednesday morning at the Mont-Laurier courthouse in connection with these charges. He now faces life imprisonment.

The forty-year-old had no criminal history.

To protect his mother

According to our information, the drama began when the 70-year-old father tried to suffocate his sick partner on Tuesday. The couple was also in the process of separating.

Their son, however, intervened by stabbing his father in the neck and thus saved the life of his quadriplegic mother.

Luc Desjardins was transported to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The mother and son were also taken to the emergency room for non-life-threatening injuries.

The tragedy occurred in the yellow and opulent residence, located on Montée des Chevreuils, belonging to the accused. Mathieu Bellemare-Desjardins bought it in 2020.

Discreet family

The Journal yesterday went to Chute-Saint-Philippe, a village where nearly 1,000 inhabitants live.

The mayor and neighbors of Bellemare-Desjardins indicated that the family was little known in the region.

“We are all really in shock today. We had no idea that it could happen here,” said Normand St-Amour, mayor of the municipality.

Louis Bernatchez, a former neighbor in a neighborhood in western Montreal where the family lived before moving to the Laurentians, says the mother was ill and rarely left the house.

“I know that the son was still protective of his mother,” he mentions.