Quebec provincial police and Montreal police are requesting the public’s help in locating Frédérick Silva, a suspect in Montreal’s 10th homicide of 2017 last May, and now also wanted in connection with an attempt to murder a man with close ties to the Montreal Mafia.
Silva is considered armed and dangerous and is on the list of Quebec’s most-wanted criminals.
According to a release issued by the Montreal police on Wednesday, investigators believe Silva, along with 10 other individuals, entered a restaurant in Lachenaie, just north of Laval, around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Silva is suspected of shooting an individual there several times, hitting him at least twice, then chasing the victim on foot before returning to his car, a red Range Rover, and fleeing the scene.
Montreal police provided this photo in hopes of helping someone identify murder and attempted murder suspect Frédérick Silva.
Investigators say they have identified five of the individuals believed to have accompanied Silva that night, and are still trying to identify another five. While the release does not name the victim, the shooting is an apparent reference to how Salvatore Scoppa, 47, was shot while at a restaurant in Lachenaie, which is part of Terrebonne. Scoppa is the brother of Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa, 53, the alleged leader of a Calabrian clan within the Montreal Mafia.
Silva, 36, was already a suspect in a homicide that occurred on May 24 in Montreal outside the Cabaret Les Amazones, a strip club on St-Jacques St. in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Anyone who sees Silva should call 911 immediately, and anyone who knows the location of this individual should contact investigators directly at 514-280-2053. Contact can also be made anonymously via Info-Crime at 514-393-1133 or infocrimemontreal.ca.
If you see or know the location of this man, Frédérick Silva, please contact police.
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