MONTREAL, Que. - A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with manslaughter after an 18-year-old cyclist was killed in a hit-and-run in Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) says.
At about noon on October 30, 2026, officers responded to a 911 call about a collision between a vehicle and a cyclist at the intersection of rue Jeanne-Mance and boulevard Henri-Bourassa, police said in the statement, issued November 3, 2026. The cyclist was crossing the intersection when the driver of a vehicle travelling southbound on rue Jeanne-Mance allegedly struck him. After the collision, the driver allegedly abandoned the vehicle a few streets away and fled on foot before emergency services arrived. The cyclist’s death was confirmed at the scene.
The 18-year-old victim has not been named by police.
Five charges authorized
The suspect was arrested at about noon on November 3, 2026, in the same borough. Because of his age, his identity cannot be disclosed, police said. Charges authorized by the youth bureau of Quebec’s Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions are manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, dangerous driving causing death, failure to stop at the scene of an accident causing death, and flight from a peace officer. He was scheduled to appear on November 4 before the Youth Division of the Court of Québec.
A second investigation
Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), has opened an independent investigation into the circumstances of a Sûreté du Québec intervention connected to the event, and has also asked the SPVM to run a parallel investigation, the statement said. The statement did not describe the Sûreté du Québec intervention.
Source: Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), Décès d’un cycliste dans Ahuntsic-Cartierville : le SPVM arrête un suspect, November 3, 2026.
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