A 20-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after an 18-year-old woman was found dead in a Montreal apartment Tuesday.

Montreal police say they received 911 calls around 12:20 p.m. about a woman found unconscious in an apartment on Everett Street in the Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension borough.

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She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers arrested the man on-site and he has appeared at the Montreal courthouse.

Police did not confirm how the woman died and said an autopsy will determine the cause of death.

Her death is the sixth homicide recorded in Montreal this year.

Salim Touaibi has been found guilty of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder in the drive-by shooting of a teenager in Montreal in 2021.

His co-accused, Aymane Bouadi, who was inside the car when Touaibi fired the shots, has been acquitted of all charges.

The Superior Court trial heard that Meriem Boundaoui, 15, was sitting in the passenger seat of a Volkswagen Jetta in Montreal’s St-Léonard borough on Feb. 7, 2021, when a white Mercedes with two men inside pulled up and one of them opened fire, hitting her fatally in the head.

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The death of high school student shook Quebec’s Algerian community and prompted wider calls for stronger measures to stop gun violence. Montreal’s mayor and police chief later announced a new police unit targeting gun traffickers in the wake of her death and that of two other teens the same year.

Over the course of a trial spanning more than two months, the jury heard that Boundaoui was a bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught in the crossfire of a conflict between two family businesses that did not concern her.

Touaibi said on the stand that he was the shooter, but testified he didn’t realize Boundaoui or anyone else was in the Jetta when he shot at it. He acknowledged being aware of the conflict between family businesses, but said his involvement was limited to trying to act as a peacemaker.

Bouadi’s lawyer argued during closing arguments that his client was just a “passive” passenger in the Mercedes who had gone to get food with his friend and should be acquitted. He said his client was aware of the conflict between groups but not involved.

The two men were arrested days apart by Montreal police in June 2022.

It’s the three-year anniversary of a building fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people — and there are still no charges.

Both the prosecutor’s office and Montreal police say the criminal investigation is ongoing and they are working to have information for the public as soon as possible.

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The fire ripped through a heritage building on March 16, 2023, killing seven people, six of whom had been staying in illegal short-term rentals.

Police have said that traces of an accelerant were found at the scene and could explain how the fire spread so quickly through the building.

Court documents in an unrelated case have identified as a suspect Denis Bégin, who is currently serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder.

The documents from Correctional Service Canada cite Montreal police testimony alleging that Bégin was filmed by a surveillance camera in the area around the building before and after the fire.

The lawyer for one of the men charged in the drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old girl in Montreal has told a jury his client was a passive presence on the night of her death.

Martin Latour said during closing arguments that his client Aymane Bouadi was riding along in a rental car driven by his friend when Meriem Boundaoui was killed on Feb. 7, 2021.

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Boundaoui was in the passenger seat of a different vehicle that was struck by bullets in Montreal’s St-Léonard borough.

Both Bouadi and his co-accused, Salim Touaibi, are charged with first-degree murder in her death, as well as attempted murder of people standing nearby.

Touaibi has said he was the shooter, but testified he didn’t realize Boundaoui or anyone else was in the other car when he shot at it.

Latour said Bouadi had only gone with his friend to get food, and was in a total panic after Touaibi pulled out a gun and shot past his head out the passenger side window.

The lawyer for one of the men charged in the drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old girl in Montreal has told a jury his client should be found guilty of manslaughter, not murder.

Marc Labelle said in his closing arguments Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse that his client Salim Touaibi admits to firing the shot that killed Meriem Boundaoui and therefore cannot be acquitted.

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But Labelle says the evidence suggests Touaibi didn’t mean to kill anyone when he shot at the Volkswagen Jetta while the teen was in the passenger seat on Feb. 7, 2021.

Touaibi and his co-defendant, Aymane Bouadi, were charged with first-degree murder after the 15-year-old was killed in Montreal’s St-Léonard borough by shots fired from a Mercedes that had pulled up beside the Jetta.

The trial in Superior Court has heard that Boundaoui was caught in the crossfire of a dispute that did not involve her, which arose between two family-owned businesses over parking spots.

Labelle says his client fired toward the car because he was afraid of being shot and wanted to scare others nearby, but had not realized the teenager was inside.

Montreal police say they are conducting searches in an investigation connected to the death of a teenager shot dead by police on the city’s South Shore.

Nooran Rezayi, 15, was killed by Longueuil police after officers responded to a 911 call on Sept. 21 about a group of allegedly armed youth in a residential neighbourhood.

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The shooting is being investigated by the province’s police watchdog — Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes — which has said the only gun seized at the scene belonged to the officer who shot the teen.

Montreal police are conducting a parallel investigation into the events that led to Longueuil police being called on the group of young people.

The searches are taking place in several communities on the South Shore including Beloeil, Brossard, Candiac, Longueuil, and St-Philippe.

Rezayi’s family said in December they filed a $2.2-million civil lawsuit against Longueuil police, saying the use of force against the teenager was unreasonable and disproportionate.

A Quebec man who drowned his two children in October 2022 has told a jury he has no memory of the day they died.

Kamaljit Arora is testifying in his own defence for a second day at his murder trial in Laval, Que., a suburb north of Montreal.

He says he consumed fentanyl on the day of the killings and has no recollection about drowning his 13-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son in their Laval home.

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Arora, 49, says he remembers waking up handcuffed in hospital a few weeks after the deaths.

He has admitted to causing the deaths of the two children, but has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, the attempted murder of his older daughter and the strangulation of his former wife.

A publication ban has been placed on the names of the young victims.

The Crown, which has completed presenting evidence, intends to prove that Arora’s actions were premeditated.

Arora told the jury he had been suffering mental health issues since 2020 including a severe depression. He said he had purchased what he thought was fentanyl leading up to the killings with the intent of dying by suicide