Montreal police say a conflict that began inside a party hall venue spilled onto the street. As brawlers tangled, a driver struck seven people and fled.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Montreal police are investigating a brawl early Sunday morning that ended with a hit and run incident and seven people in hospital. An SPVM police officer is shown in Montreal at a crime scene earlier this month.
Montreal police said they were called to the exterior of a reception hall rental venue in the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie arrondissement North of downtown after reports of a street brawl at 3:25 a.m.That’s when officers learned about the hit and run incident and that the driver had fled the scene after striking seven people, Montreal Police spokeswoman Caroline Chèvrefils said.
A half hour later, police learned from a 9-1-1 call that the five others suspected of being involved in the brawl and struck by the vehicle were also injured and seeking medical care at a nearby hospital.Chèvrefils said the victims hit by the vehicle were men and women between 29 and 47 years old, and none sustained life-threatening injuries.
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