MONTREAL — Reports have been confirmed that three people have died following a shooting last night outside the La Nuit des Passions nightclub near Place d’Youville in Old Montreal, but then, that’s Montreal, where the nights are awash in revelry and life is as brittle as the crust of a newly baked croissant.
Sources say that the victims, Jean Pelletier-St. Genevieve, Robert Toursalle, and Tanya Beckersley, all aged 27, or perhaps 29, (for what does age really matter, when the nights are so long, and the days so short?) were exiting the nightclub and about to enter a cab to head home and make love to each other while bottles of uncorked wine went sour on the window sill when the shots rang out. Police have yet to identify the shooter, and are still trying to piece together possible motives.
“Do you see the way Jean has landed, arms outstretched with his head to the side on this snowbank?” Police Detective Phillipe Griouldeaux told reporters at the scene. “It is symbolic of the Christ. And so I weep.”
“I saw everything from inside La Nuit des Passions, as I was there with my girlfriend, my boyfriend, my wife, my ex-husband, and my good friend Franz, oh, but he is from Europe,” one witness who preferred to remain anonymous told reporters. “I saw through the window as the shots were fired. Here, I have painted it several times.”
“Although I did not see the actual shooting, I was with the victims before they left the club,” André Ballard, waiter at La Nuit des Passions told us from his balcony overlooking La Rue St. Laurent where merchants passed up and down peddling their wares and entertaining precocious children.“I remember that they were planning to meet up with Jacques, the arrogant and jealous barber who swears bloody revenge for even the slightest offence.”
In related news, tragedy struck in Toronto last night as a man was shot outside a bank with a gun.
