Montreal police say a gasoline station clerk is in hospital and a suspect stays at massive after a violent assault within the metropolis’s St-Laurent borough.
According to police, simply earlier than 5 a.m. Wednesday a person with a knife entered the Ultramar on the nook of Marcel-Laurin and de la Côte Vertu boulevards.
Witness accounts gathered by police say the suspect jumped the counter and proceeded to stab the 61-year-old gasoline station worker a number of occasions earlier than fleeing the scene.
The sufferer was despatched to hospital and is in steady situation.
The assault seems to have been unprovoked, in keeping with police spokesperson Julien Lévesque. No cash or gadgets have been reported stolen throughout the incident.
It stays unclear how the suspect fled.
Lévesque stated investigators shall be trying over safety footage to assist determine the suspect.
The gasoline station is anticipated to be closed for the morning as investigators comb the scene.
Gas station clerk stabbed several times during violent attack at Ultramar in Montreal