Montreal police say they have arrested a man in connection with the city’s 22nd homicide of 2020, after a 25-year-old man turned himself in to police Wednesday afternoon.
Francieli Ortiz-Vivanco had been the subject of an arrest warrant after a man was killed in his convenience store on Nov. 6 in Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough.
Police allege Ortiz-Vivanco and another individual entered the dépanneur at the corner of de Lille Street and Henri-Bourassa Boulevard as part of a robbery.
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According to police, the owner was assaulted during the incident and later died of his injuries.
Ortiz-Vivanco is expected to appear in court on Thursday morning, police said in a news release.
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