Overview

• Gagnon was convicted on June 21 of three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for the March 2023 incident in Amqui, Quebec.
• Justice Louis Dionne imposed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years alongside concurrent 10-year terms for each attempted murder conviction.
• The attack claimed the lives of Gérald Charest, Jean Lafrenière and Simon-Guillaume Bourget and left nine other pedestrians injured.
• The Crown argued that Gagnon’s actions were intentional and premeditated while his defence maintained the deaths resulted from a moment of inattention.
• Jurors in Rimouski deliberated for two days before delivering a unanimous guilty verdict against the 40-year-old defendant.