Double suicide on Westmount Avenue

Montreal police confirmed a Westmount couple in their 70s discovered dead in their Westmount Avenue garage had committed suicide. "It was clear by the end of the day," said media relations officer Raphaël Bergeron. "It was definitely a suicide."

However, Bergeron would not make any more comments, stating the police does not comment on cases of suicide or sexual aggression.

The grisly discovery was made on Thursday, October 2, by a local milkman in the early hours of the morning, according to what police told the Westmount Examiner back then.

The milkman noticed light coming out of the garage and saw fumes, police Const. Olivier Lapointe said. The milkman then looked into a window, saw the bodies, and called 911.

A car had been running for an indeterminate amount of time, filling the garage with noxious fumes.

None of the neighbours surrounding the posh Westmount Avenue/Roslyn Street home wished to talk to the The Examiner. "I'm only staying overnight," one man who answered next door said, adding he did not live there.

Across the street, a woman claiming to be a housekeeper opened the door and said she knew nothing of what had happened.

A neighbour said she had only lived in the area for the last year and did not know the people in question. "No, no, no," vehemently said another neighbour, when asked if he was an acquaintance of the couple.