MONTREAL – Two bodies found in a Smart Car parked in downtown Montreal early Friday both suffered fatal gunshot wounds, police say.
A police spokesman says detectives have determined the people in the car are a couple in their 50s from Montreal.
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A passerby reported seeing them in the parked vehicle along the southern slope of Mount Royal.
Police said little else about the cause of death – except that they didn’t believe anyone else was involved. They found a gun near the bodies but wouldn’t say if it was inside the car.
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Const. Dany Richer says detectives are working to determine whether the couple took their own lives or if it was a murder-suicide.
The incident caused a road closure Friday, cutting off a main artery that leads to two hospitals – the Shriners and the Montreal General.
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