Murder of police officer André Lalonde remains unsolved 25 years later
Constable André Lalonde was gunned down on Senneville Rd. in 1996 after pulling over a motorist with a faulty muffler.
''Murder of police officer André Lalonde remains unsolved 25 years later
Constable André Lalonde was gunned down on Senneville Rd. in 1996 after pulling over a motorist with a faulty muffler.John Meagher • May 05, 2021
''Shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday, April 29, 1996, Lalonde, working solo traffic duty, pulled over a motorist because of a faulty muffler. A noisy muffler would stand out in sleepy Senneville, an affluent village on the western tip of Montreal with less than a 1,000 residents.
The roadside encounter proved fatal for the 51-year-old Lalonde who was shot three times at close range as he exited his vehicle and then fell to the ground.
The suspect, identified as a male in his 20s, sped off. The car — a brown, four-door 1991 Ford Tempo which had been stolen a month earlier in Laval -— was later found abandoned in Park Extension. It had been set ablaze.
Police have been searching for Lalonde’s killer ever since.
Newspaper accounts noted that a passer-by who witnessed the shooting called in a report using the police radio in Lalonde’s cruiser. An ambulance was summoned but took some 16 minutes to arrive.
Lalonde, known in the West Island community as a friendly cop with a big thick moustache, was transported to Lakeshore General Hospital in Pointe-Claire where he was declared deceased. He left behind a wife and two adult children.''
