6case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 6 case files in Montreal. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 4 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Coastal Elite from Halifax, CanadaCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenMontreal, Quebec, Canada · 2012
The 2012 murder of Jun Lin, an international student at Concordia University in Montreal, for which Luka Magnotta was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014.
Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 2006
On September 13, 2006, 25-year-old Kimveer Singh Gill opened fire at Dawson College in downtown Montreal, killing 18-year-old Anastasia Rebecca De Sousa and wounding 19 others before he was shot in the arm by police and died by suicide.
Credit: Gates of AleCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenMétropolis theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 2012
During Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois's 2012 election-night victory speech in Montreal, a gunman opened fire outside the Métropolis venue, killing stage technician Denis Blanchette and wounding a colleague, in what was investigated as an attempted assassination of Marois.
SOLVEDListenHenry F. Hall Building, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 1992
On August 24, 1992, Valery I. Fabrikant, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, shot and killed four colleagues and wounded a staff member on the ninth floor of Concordia University's Henry F. Hall Building in Montreal. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
OVERTURNEDListenMontreal Central Station, Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 1984
On September 3, 1984, a pipe bomb exploded in a locker at Montreal Central Station, killing three French tourists and injuring dozens. American Thomas Bernard Clark Brigham was convicted of the bombing in 1985, though his death in 1993 during a second appeal restored a presumption of innocence.
Credit: Canadian illustrated news, 12 juillet 1879Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenGriffintown, Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 1879
Mary Gallagher, a 19th-century Irish-Canadian woman, was killed by decapitation in the Griffintown neighbourhood of Montreal on 27 June 1879.
The files run from 1879 to 2012. The 2010s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Killing of Mary Gallagher, from 1879.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (6), mass shooting cases (2) and school shooting cases (1).
1 file of the 6 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary from 1 creator.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
5720 Decarie Blvd, Montreal (2) - Murder Location — Credit: Coastal Elite from Halifax, CanadaCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Attack Quebec 2012 Elections Metropolis — Credit: Gates of AleCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Montreal - Scene of the Gallagher Murder, William Street.jpg — Credit: Canadian illustrated news, 12 juillet 1879Public domainSource6. By status: 1 unsolved, 4 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Killing of Mary Gallagher, from 1879. Open the file
Murder of Jun Lin, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
