If the Directorate of the Police of Trois-Rivières (DPTR) refused to comment on Sunday evening regarding the reason for the intervention, witnesses encountered on the spot said to the Novelist that a hostage taking took place there.
Indeed, a woman would have been taken hostage by her neighbor at the forefront of a knife, but has since been released by the madman who would have been barricaded on the scene, argued several sources.
On the spot, we could also hear the agents summarize the man to go by leaving “hands behind the head” of the accommodation on rue Gervais. This is what the suspect has chosen to do, around 9 p.m., allowing the end of the blood -free police operation to be ended.
It appears that an individual with erratic and visibly disorganized conduct had been seen for several days in the sector. It would be this man who would be at the origin of the hostage taking, according to several neighbors of the crime scene.
A section of rue Gervais was closed to traffic during the evening and crime stage ribbons were installed during the operation. The police deployment caught the eye of onlookers, several of which attended the scene.
