A former member of the Hells Angels, who was kicked out of the band about 15 years ago due to his drug problems, was shot dead on Monday evening in a residence known as a drug hotspot in the Saint-Hubert sector. In Langu.
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According to our information, 53-year-old Eric “Beluga” Leclerc was hit by several projectiles at around 11pm in a house on rue Mackay, located in the Laflache district.
Eric “Beluga” Leclerc, the victim.
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“We have seen everything. I heard three gunshots and saw a guy coming out of the basement holding something,” he said. Newspaper A resident of the neighborhood, who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution.
“He got into a car and there were two of them. They left [en vitesse], she continued. Then a woman came out covered in blood and was crying and mad.
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When they arrived at the scene, they found a severely injured person lying in a pool of blood.
He was taken to the hospital in critical condition and died within hours.
By mid-Tuesday, the investigation launched by the Longueuil urban police service was transferred to the Sûreté du Québec because the crime may be related to organized crime.
The problem is the house
According to our information, the address where the murder took place was already known to police sources.
“This is reality Bomb. How many police interventions were there? There are always problems there,” noted another neighbor.
However, it is not known whether the victim, Eric Leclerc, was at the scene to consume the drugs or to smuggle them.
Everyone nicknamed “Beluga” already wanted to be a member of the rock machine during the biker wars that left 165 dead in the province between 1994 and 2002. He was recruited by a criminal gang against enemy drug dealers. .
In 1999, he was one of the first convicted gang members.
He switches sides
“Beluga” later abandoned Rock Machine while in prison and joined the Hells Angels, the most powerful criminal organization in the country.
But in 2009, he was kicked out of the group due to drug problems.
Most recently, in 2021, Leclerc was involved in a home robbery that may have been drug-related. However, the charges against him were dropped.
At the time of his death on Monday evening, Leclerc was awaiting trial on charges of possession of a prohibited weapon, although he was barred from doing so. He appeared in court again on May 14.
Leclerc has accumulated several criminal records since the early 1990s.
– With Philippe Langlois, Bureau of Investigation
