BREAKING: Montreal Police Are Looking For Individual Who Shot Up To Jewish Schools

The Montreal police force (SPVM) is investigating after two Jewish schools in Montreal were hit with gunshots overnight.

The SPVM says they received a 911 call at 8:20 a.m. regarding gunshot impacts found on the front door of a Jewish school located on Saint-Kevin Ave. in Côte-des-Neiges. Bullet casings were also located.

Authorities believe the gunshots were fired overnight. No one was in the building at the time of the shooting and no one was injured.

Shortly after at 8:50 a.m. a 911 call was made about gunshot impacts found on the front door of another Jewish school nearby on Chemin Deacon in Outremont.

In this case police also believe the shots were fired overnight. No one was in the building at the time of the shooting and no one was injured.

SPVM officers were on the scene at both schools as the investigation is ongoing.

“We’ve looked around the school to see if any messages were done or graffiti. So we didn’t locate anything. We’re not closing any doors at this point on a hate crime situation,” said Jean-Pierre Brabant, a spokesperson for Montreal police (SPVM), adding, “we’re going to gather the information at this point. And if we have information pointing to a hate crime investigator, we’ll get involved and we’re going to look into it for sure.”

“This morning we woke up to the fact that two of our Jewish schools, institutions in which we trust to send our Jewish kids, were shot overnight. Now we have to deal with a different reality. The Jewish community with close to 300 years of history in Quebec is under attack,” said Yair Szlak, President and Chief Executive Officer at Federation CJA, at an urgent press conference the organization called following the shootings.

The incidents occurred at a time when the Montreal police is reporting a rise in hate crimes and incidents amid the Israel-Hamas war.

“We’re seeing a rise of antisemitism and it’s turning violent. We saw a Molotov cocktail thrown at a synagogue in Dollard-Des-Ormeaux earlier this week. Another one at the Jewish Federation building in Montreal. We saw the mob attacking students yesterday at Concordia. It’s spreading. We had an Imam at a demonstration recently in downtown Montreal spewing hate. The Jewish community, we’re very worried,” said Richard Marceau, Vice President, External Affairs and General Counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, in an interview with CityNews.