Autopsy of a killing spree of 30 days

Photo courtesy of the court
The police have
identified with
numbers the
bushings 14
projectiles fired in
the direction of the bouncer
Dannick Lessard
near the bar
The Garage, Mirabel.

Éric Thibault

Sunday, 4 march, 2018 01:00

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Guilty of two murders and two attempted murders, Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau has been sentenced to a penalty of Quebec record, Wednesday : life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for at least 35 years. Here is a sample of his 30 days of murderous madness, as documented in the police investigation and trial that led to his conviction.

“I’m going to show you what a man, my sewer rat. This is where you’ll finish, my dirty ;-)… “

This is one of the text messages that one of the victims of Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau received, in the fall of 2012, before being shot.

Archival photograph, courtesy of the court

A pistol P-13 .45 caliber seized in the possession of the accused during their arrest.

The aspirant, stripped of the Hells Angels paid little attention to the traces he left of his threats on his cell phone and on social networks.

In the previous days, it was also expressed on the account Facebook of a “long time friend” whose identity can’t be published. He threatened him to “break the fingers quietly” and the sodomized ” violently “.

On the afternoon of September 29, 2012, he called the victim to meet in a resto-pub in the pretext of wishing to settle their chicane monetary order, in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson in the Laurentians.

The” friend ” has received three bullets in the back fired by an accomplice of Hudon-Barbeau. Hospitalized, he received a call from Hudon-Barbeau, the next day. Tone bland, he wanted to “news” by pretending to ignore what had happened…

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Ryan Wolfson, wearing a mask in the likeness of Batman and filmed by a surveillance camera of the bar, The Garage, tugging on Dannick Lessard.

Excited by the murder

The morning of the 10th of October following, Hudon-Barbeau is ” excited like a child in front of their tv, according to a witness. He looks forward to that Claude Poirier speaks of a new “spectacular” which he seems to already know the details.

Two men come to be affected by gunfire in a residence in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson. One of them, Vincent Pietrantonio, a business man of 53 years old, was pressing Hudon-Barbeau from several weeks to repay a debt of $150,000.

“You milked drain. Threats, it leads to action “, answered the guy.

Archival Photo from Facebook

Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau had been
nicknamed “The Arm” by one of its
victims.

Fearful, Pietrantonio had requested to Frederick Murdock, 33 years old, to ensure its protection. This morning, they had dinner when they saw an Oldsmobile Alero grey getting.

The bodyguard rushed out and was killed in an exchange of gunfire. Pietrantonio is released and a projectile of caliber .40 pierced the chest, 5 cm at the bottom of the heart. It has, however, survived. Long enough to say what he knew to the police.

Hudon-Barbeau was disappointed. “My Indian does poorly,” he reportedly said, adding that he began to ” laugh with him in the middle “.

A few years earlier, Hudon-Barbeau had taken Ryan Wolfson under his wing while they were both in prison. Wolfson, whom he called ” my Indian “, became his right hand man and obeyed him ” the finger and the eye “.

Wolfson has not missed its target, the 18 October.

Archival photograph, courtesy of the court

Two bullets fired by a victim have been found in the trunk of the car that Wolfson had stolen for his contract on 10 October 2012.

For several months, Hudon-Barbeau was putting pressure on a dealer to take his ” run ” of cocaine, in the region of Saint-Sauveur.

He unsuccessfully tried to convince Pierre-Paul Fortier, whose monthly profits could reach 100 000 $, buying a “coke” rather than ” Italians “.

He even claimed a compensation of one million $. To ” buy peace “, Fortier, 27 years of age, has consented to pay him 1800 $ per month. But Hudon-Barbeau was ” never happy “. And Fortier was nervous.

Archival photograph, courtesy of the court

One of the shootings occurred in front of a restaurant-bar in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.

Before the afternoon of the murder, the father of three young children told his wife that he had to go to dinner with ” The Arm “, the nickname he gave Hudon-Barbeau.

To 13: 15 p.m., an employee of the SAQ parked at the Manoir Saint-Sauveur hears four shots and sees a suspicious — he will then as Wolfson — take flight. Fortier is found lifeless behind the hotel.

Hudon-Barbeau returns home with Wolfson, at the wheel of an SUV, Lincoln MKX white, which was filmed by a surveillance camera of the Manoir Saint-Sauveur over the noon hour. It is “emotional,” and said to a relative that they ” come to kill someone.”

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Hudon-Barbeau and his right hand man Wolfson (right).

“Nothing to lose “

The night of October 15, Dannick Lessard, a brawler featuring hockey league semi-pro, works as a bouncer at the bar dancers, The Garage, Mirabel, when Hudon-Barbeau arrives to talk to him.

Six years earlier, Lessard was porter of the Upper Club, a bar in downtown Montreal. It was presented to him in Hudon-Barbeau and advised us to “take care” of this client linked to organized crime.

One evening in October 2006, two men linked to street gangs, have been shot down, and Hudon-Barbeau has been imprisoned after having been incriminated by a witness of the prosecution who was parjurée. Whitened by the Court of appeal in January 2012, he remained very bitter towards the justice system.

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Ryan Wolfson, Who Was Sentenced

And he wanted to Lessard for the version that he gave to the police, even if the porter has maintained that he had not seen the shooter.

“Thou hast not helped, you would have had to help me. I am a freaked out, you know me. I have nothing to lose, I lost everything. I had respect for you, but everything you deserve is a bullet between the eyes “, he said Hudon-Barbeau this evening.

On 28 October, Lessard left the bar at 4 a.m. when a stranger wearing a mask of Batman takes 14 bullets in his direction with the aid of two pistols, up to nine times.

“I would have been supposed to die,” testified the survivor of 39 years.

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Frederick Murdock, Victim

“The worst nightmare “

The same day, Hudon-Barbeau and Wolfson have feasted this “big shot” with friends and ” were saying openly that they had done that “. But Hudon-Barbeau was put to doubt any of the people present at the party, who ” knew too much “.

The victim, whose identity cannot be revealed, said to the Sûreté du Québec that it had made him live ” 12 hours of horror “.

This witness would have done to threaten to rape, murder and violent reprisals against his relatives.

“It was the worst nightmare of my life, recounted the victim. I was crying, I was shouting. I felt it was for me to shoot. The only image I had in mind was that of my father, dead, in his grave. “

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Vincent Pietrantonio, Victim

Of the sentence…

On November 3, following, Hudon-Barbeau and Wolfson were arrested during a routine visit to the squad Eclipse of the SPVM at the bar dancers, the Wanda’s in Montreal. The duo walked around with three guns, or weapons used in the shootings.

The Oldsmobile grey with which Wolfson had visited chez Vincent Pietrantonio, October 10, 2012, and that he had abandoned in Val-David has been found. It had been reported stolen by a dancer that Wolfson had briefly attended.

Sleeves of calibre .40 from one of the guns Wolfson have been found in the cabin. Two spent cartridges of .45 caliber, drawn by Frederick Murdock before dying, were in the trunk of the car. Wolfson was sentenced to the perpète for the murder of Murdock in 2016.

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Dannick Lessard, Victim

Hudon-Barbeau has proclaimed his innocence despite the overwhelming evidence. His only gain was to be released of the charge of attempted murder on Lessard.

At trial, he has even said to the jurors that he had had “the sentence” to the family of Pierre-Paul Fortier and that he saw another of his victims as his ” little brother “.

“But he has not fooled anyone,” observed the judge, France Charbonneau.