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SHOOFEY FRANK - MURDER - SASKATOON STAR - Newspapers.com
On October 1985, Frank Shoofey was shot 5 times, 3 times in the head and 2 in the chest, he was found laying face down in front of the elevators of his law office.
Frank was a well known Lawyer, known for being involved in some of Montreal's most high profile criminal cases.
Tactical teams were sent into the building with bullet proof vests and sub machine guns swept the building for potential suspects, they streets and exits around the building were blocked off. No persons of interest or suspects were ever found.
"Shortly afterwards at 9:35 p.m The Gazette received a telephone call from a man claiming to be with the "Red Army Liberation Front", saying: "I and my colleagues have just assassinated Frank Shoofey. Good riddance." However, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had not heard of a group by this name, and a spokesman suggested that the call may have been an attempt to throw off the investigation. Crime writers Peter Edwards and Michel Auger later wrote: "it was likely that mobsters, not some unknown political group, were the killers of Shoofey". This is further supported by a 2009 book, The Contract, by Claude Grant, a legal colleague who articled under Shoofey. Grant said that there was word in underworld circles of a contract on Shoofey’s life about a year before the actual murder, that Shoofey was warned of the matter, but dismissed it as hearsay. Grant himself went into hiding for a period of time after Shoofey’s death, fearing his own life to be in danger.
A women at around the same time as the "Red Army Liberation Front" caller, had called the police station and reported that a man had been shot in Shoofey's office.
I believe that the person calling in from the "Red Army liberation front" may have had something do do with Frank Shoofey's murder. How would have the caller known anything about the shootings within the first 10 minutes of the murder? In the article^ it said that a women had called the police about Frank being murdered, and that the man had called in around the same time. I'm guessing that the women called in the first few minutes of Frank being found, so how else would this mysterious man have known about frank being murdered unless he had some kind of connection. Many people believe that he had nothing to do with it, but how would have he known about the death of Frank that quickly?
Another question I have is, How could a prominent Lawyer like Frank Shoofey's murder go unsolved for 36 years? The police knew of so many potential murders like mobs or rival mobs of clients he defended, how come none of them were questioned. I can find barley anything to do with police investigating mobs or gangs in the area at that time.
At around the same time another Criminal Lawyer named Sydney Leithman was shot and killed. Sydney was sitting in his car at a red light and was shot multiple times. He was shot in the head which in the end was the killing shot.
I can't, but wonder if these 2 shootings had something in common. If they were in any way related. Maybe they both defended a case for a rival gang? Maybe they had some enemies within the mobs or gangs in montreal. Who knows, but all I know is that this case and this man, Frank Shoofey was targeted. And the assailant was trained in some manner or had experience in some way. Do you have any comments or any idea who may have done it?
On October 1985, Frank Shoofey was shot 5 times, 3 times in the head and 2 in the chest, he was found laying face down in front of the elevators of his law office.
Frank was a well known Lawyer, known for being involved in some of Montreal's most high profile criminal cases.
Tactical teams were sent into the building with bullet proof vests and sub machine guns swept the building for potential suspects, they streets and exits around the building were blocked off. No persons of interest or suspects were ever found.
"Shortly afterwards at 9:35 p.m The Gazette received a telephone call from a man claiming to be with the "Red Army Liberation Front", saying: "I and my colleagues have just assassinated Frank Shoofey. Good riddance." However, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had not heard of a group by this name, and a spokesman suggested that the call may have been an attempt to throw off the investigation. Crime writers Peter Edwards and Michel Auger later wrote: "it was likely that mobsters, not some unknown political group, were the killers of Shoofey". This is further supported by a 2009 book, The Contract, by Claude Grant, a legal colleague who articled under Shoofey. Grant said that there was word in underworld circles of a contract on Shoofey’s life about a year before the actual murder, that Shoofey was warned of the matter, but dismissed it as hearsay. Grant himself went into hiding for a period of time after Shoofey’s death, fearing his own life to be in danger.
A women at around the same time as the "Red Army Liberation Front" caller, had called the police station and reported that a man had been shot in Shoofey's office.
I believe that the person calling in from the "Red Army liberation front" may have had something do do with Frank Shoofey's murder. How would have the caller known anything about the shootings within the first 10 minutes of the murder? In the article^ it said that a women had called the police about Frank being murdered, and that the man had called in around the same time. I'm guessing that the women called in the first few minutes of Frank being found, so how else would this mysterious man have known about frank being murdered unless he had some kind of connection. Many people believe that he had nothing to do with it, but how would have he known about the death of Frank that quickly?
Another question I have is, How could a prominent Lawyer like Frank Shoofey's murder go unsolved for 36 years? The police knew of so many potential murders like mobs or rival mobs of clients he defended, how come none of them were questioned. I can find barley anything to do with police investigating mobs or gangs in the area at that time.
At around the same time another Criminal Lawyer named Sydney Leithman was shot and killed. Sydney was sitting in his car at a red light and was shot multiple times. He was shot in the head which in the end was the killing shot.
I can't, but wonder if these 2 shootings had something in common. If they were in any way related. Maybe they both defended a case for a rival gang? Maybe they had some enemies within the mobs or gangs in montreal. Who knows, but all I know is that this case and this man, Frank Shoofey was targeted. And the assailant was trained in some manner or had experience in some way. Do you have any comments or any idea who may have done it?
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