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Accused in deadly Amqui, Que., truck crash found guilty of murder
BAS-SAINT-LAURENT, QUEBEC, JUN 21 – Jury concluded Steeve Gagnon planned and intentionally used his truck to kill three men and injure nine others in a premeditated attack, court records show.
- In March 2023, Steeve Gagnon, a 40-year-old Quebec man, was found guilty of three first-degree murders and two attempted murders in Amqui, Quebec.
- The guilty verdict followed the truck attack after Gagnon recorded videos two days earlier describing running down children in a schoolyard.
- On the day of the incident, Gagnon paused near an empty schoolyard—empty because it was a pedagogical day—before accelerating onto the sidewalk and hitting pedestrians, resulting in the deaths of three men and injuries to nine others.
- The jury deliberated for two days and returned a unanimous verdict Saturday night, while Justice Louis Dionne sentenced Gagnon to life with no parole for 25 years and concurrent 10-year terms for attempted murder.
- The conviction suggests the court accepted the Crown's argument that Gagnon's actions were intentional and premeditated despite the defense claiming it was an accident.
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The man is found guilty of three first-degree murders and two attempted murders using a motor vehicle.
·Montreal, Canada
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The jury did not buy the thesis of the accident and found Steeve Gagnon guilty of three premeditated murders and multiple murder attempts.
·Montreal, Canada
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Jury finds Quebec man guilty in 2023 truck attack in Amqui, Que.
A Quebec man has been found guilty of all charges in a 2023 truck attack in a rural community that killed three men and injured nine other people. Steeve Gagnon learned his fate following two days of deliberations by the jury, who returned with unanimous verdicts Saturday night. The 40-year-old was found guilty of three […]
·Toronto, Canada
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