One person is dead and another critically injured after a shooting outside of the Metropolis theatre in Montreal during the Parti Québécois victory speech Sept 4., according to the CBC.
The shooting occurred just before midnight, during premier-elect Pauline Marois’ victory speech.
She was immediately taken off the stage by the security team.
A man was arrested just outside the venue with a rifle, and reportedly shouted “The English are waking up!” according to the CBC.
The gunman allegedly set a fire at the rear door of the building before he was detained, according to the CBC.
The suspect has been identified as Richard Henry Bain from Mont Tremblant.
There was an outpouring of sympathies in response to the shooting.
“Election night yesterday was darkened by a tragic event. A man died for no reason. Madness struck,” Marois said in a statement released Sept. 5. “The inquiry will tell us what happened, but for now my thoughts are obviously with the victims and their families.”
“It is a tragic day where an exercise of democracy is met with an act of violence,” Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.
“Sad to hear of an incident like the shooting at [the] #Metropolis happening anywhere but Canada, I’m surprised. Hope those people will be ok,” tweeted Pamela Gilroy-Rajotte (@PamelaG_R).
