Courtesy: The Gazette
LaSalle taxi driver Jean Levert is no Stranger to violence. He’s been robbed at gunpoint and threatened; he was nevertheless shaken when he saw a man covered in blood Stagger toward his cab earlier last week.
The 24-year-old LaSalle man died in the Montreal General Hospital several hours after he was stabbed in the abdomen with a knife in the basement apartment of Lafleur St. duplex.
The knife used in the slaying of Christ Kamagit singh was found in the LaSalle apartment. He was stabbed following an argument, police said. Two men who were in the apartment with the victim were being questioned by police that night. The man became the 22nd person slain in the Montreal Urban Community this year. There were 30 homicides at this time last year.
“No matter how much you’ve Seen or done, you’re never really mentally prepared for things like this,” said Levert, 54, who took the rest of the day off work.
He also backed into his boss’s car when he arrived at the Newman-Laflour taxi depot.
“ wasn’t afraid. It’s just that would rather witness a birth than see 4 man dying,” Levert said.
“I was sitting in my cab reading my newspaper when I saw him. ‘There was blood coming out of his mouth and chest. He didn’t speak. When he saw I wouldn’t let him in the cab, he staggered to a house nearby then resumed to the taxi stand, where he collapsed.
“I knew he needed immediate medical attention that only an ambulance could provide,” said Levent, who had his dispatcher call for assistance.
Man charged in fatal stabbing A 26-year-old man was charged with second degree murder in Tuesday’s stabbing of Christ Kamagit singh in LaSalle apartment.
jhandi Singh Surinder is to remain in custody until his next court appearance, set for June 21.
Kamagit singh, 24 died in hospital.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 10, 1994
