Sherbrooke police continued their investigation on Tuesday to arrest the perpetrators of two brutal attacks overnight in the city center from Friday to Saturday.
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Meanwhile, two attacks that injured six people, some of them seriously, confirm the hypothesis that they were carried out by the same group.
The first attack occurred on the roof of a building on rue Wellington Nord, a few hundred meters from the second incident, TVA Nouvelles has learned.
The description of the vehicle and the suspects matched in every way with the description of the second attack victim, Jacob Roy, who suffered severe facial injuries.
The 22-year-old’s mother told TVA Nouvelles that she is worried about her son and that the slope to climb for him is huge.
Since the weekend, Nathalie Leclerc spends most of her time in his bed.
Jacob Roy struggles with panic and anxiety. He suffered three jaw fractures, including one in his jaw, two severed facial nerves and a head injury.
Pain is hard to bear.
Recall that Jacob and two of his friends were leaving La Micro-Distillerie bar on Saturday night at 2:45 p.m., when they were on their way to their car in the parking lot of the Maison du Cinema, when they were attacked and beaten by seven men. ; Four of them were in a black Dodge Dart vehicle.
Twenty minutes earlier, three young men on the roof of a city building saw two men trying to force open the doors of cars parked on the street.
They shouted at them to stop and leave.
Two more men got out of a black vehicle; The four men climbed onto the roof to physically assault them.
One of the youths had his teeth knocked out, while another suffered a hand injury.
Police say they are making every effort to complete their investigation; Images from various surveillance cameras are analyzed to identify suspects and arrest them.
His mother is anxiously awaiting an outcome as Jacob worries both physically and psychologically.
