Mayor calls for stricter gun control after Montreal shooting
Soraya Martinez Ferrada says city needs better regulations on firearm ownership following deaths of police officer and civilian.
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Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said the city needs stronger gun control regulations to prevent shootings like the one Monday that killed three people, including a police officer and a civilian.
"How can someone, even today in 2026, pick up a rifle, go into a public street, and shoot people?" Martinez Ferrada said at a press conference Tuesday. She emphasized the need to address gun ownership, especially in Canada's largest city.
"That worries me," she said of the fact that people with guns can be found on Montreal's streets attacking people, as happened Monday in Côte-des-Neiges.
Martinez Ferrada acknowledged that existing legislation "can go further" while recognizing that firearms serve hunting and Indigenous communities in other areas. "But in a city like Montreal, we need to have a better control on what's happening in the streets, gun control," she said. "I'm sure that our federal government, it's something that we can talk about and see how can we better work on getting our citizens are more safe, especially on getting access to these guns."
The shooting Monday killed SPVM officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, and civilian Michel Moshe Mizrahi, 68. The suspect, 25-year-old Seth Scott Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alberta, was also killed in the gunfire.