Mohamed Lamine Benredouane was born in 1991 or 1992 and was 34 years old at the time of his death. He was a Constable with the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal, known as the SPVM, who had been with the force since 2021. He was killed in the line of duty on 22 June 2026 during a shooting in the Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, becoming the first Montreal police officer to die on duty in more than two decades. He is survived by his wife, who was pregnant at the time of his death, and a three-year-old child. This biography honours his life, his service, and the circumstances of his death.
Quick Facts About Mohamed Lamine Benredouane
| Full Name | Mohamed Lamine Benredouane |
| Date of Birth | 1991 or 1992 (exact date not publicly confirmed) |
| Age at Death | 34 |
| Place of Residence | Laval, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Constable, Service de police de la Ville de Montreal (SPVM) |
| Years of Service | 2021 to 2026 (approximately five years) |
| Spouse/Partner | Wife (pregnant at time of death; name not publicly confirmed) |
| Children | One child aged three; second child expected |
| Education | La Voie high school, Montreal; police training (SPVM) |
| Community | Algerian-Canadian community; Ligue maghrebine de soccer, Montreal |
22 June 2026: The Day of His Death
At 11:35 in the morning on 22 June 2026, the SPVM received a 911 call. A witness had seen what appeared to be a gun sticking out of a window at the Hilton Garden Inn Montreal Midtown in the Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood. Officers were dispatched. Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane and a female colleague were the first to arrive on the scene.
When they reached the location, the gunman had moved to street level. He opened fire. Benredouane was shot and fatally wounded. His colleague was also shot and critically injured. A civilian bystander, Michel Mizrahi, 68, was shot and killed. The gunman was killed by responding officers. At least twenty-nine shots were heard in videos circulating on social media, verified by CBC News.
Benredouane was 34 years old. He lived in Laval with his wife, who was pregnant. They had a three-year-old child at home. He had been a member of the SPVM for five years.
Quebec’s Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafreniere confirmed the shooting was not related to terrorism. Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau des enquetes independantes, was assigned to investigate the events. The suspect was identified as Seth Scott Hatfield, 25, from Lethbridge, Alberta. He had travelled to Montreal from western Canada. Authorities declined to discuss his motive publicly, though investigators noted a lengthy written document he had left behind.
Montreal’s SPVM announced his death with a formal statement: “It is with profound sadness that we confirm the tragic death of Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane in the line of duty, protecting the population. His death is a huge loss for our organization. His sense of duty, commitment and professionalism will forever stay in our memories. Fallen, but never forgotten.”
Early Life and Background
Mohamed Lamine Benredouane grew up in Montreal. He attended La Voie high school, a secondary school located approximately one kilometre from the intersection in Cote-des-Neiges where he would be killed in the line of duty. The neighbourhood was not unfamiliar to him. He had studied close to it, had served it as a police officer, and on 22 June 2026 he died protecting it.
He was a member of Montreal’s Algerian community. After his death, the Ligue maghrebine de soccer, a Montreal-based league in which he had played, posted a tribute photograph showing him with his soccer teammates, describing him as someone “respected and loved by all.” The statement from the league read: “The Algerian community has lost one of its children.” He was a player, a teammate, and a friend to the people around him long before and throughout his years in uniform.
SPVM Career
Constable Benredouane joined the SPVM in 2021 and served for approximately five years. He was assigned to Station 26, covering the Cote-des-Neiges and Notre-Dame-de-Grace area of Montreal. His neighbourhood was one of the most diverse and densely populated in the city, a community of students, immigrants, long-established families, and institutions, and policing it required linguistic range, cultural sensitivity, and a consistent commitment to earning trust on the street.
His senior colleagues spoke of him after his death with unmistakable warmth. Yves Francoeur, head of Montreal’s police brotherhood, described Benredouane as “a man of honour and courage.” The SPVM’s formal statement emphasised his “sense of duty, commitment and professionalism.” These are not empty formalities. In policing institutions they carry weight, and they are not applied to every officer who dies. They reflect a genuine assessment of who he was in the organisation.
His death was the first of a Montreal police officer in the line of duty in more than twenty years. The CN Tower in Toronto dimmed its lights in his memory. Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in the Cote-des-Neiges borough were cancelled out of respect. Municipal government facilities in the borough were closed. Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada sought to reassure residents that the city was safe while extending condolences to the police service and to the entire community affected by the tragedy.
Tributes and Community Response
Tributes to Constable Benredouane came from across Canada’s political and civic life. A crowdfunding campaign launched for his family in the days after his death highlighted the most immediate facts of his loss: a three-year-old child without a father, a wife expecting a second child who would be born into grief. The Stéphanie Valenzuela, borough mayor of Cote-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grace, expressed the condolences of the entire borough council directly to his family. The City of Montreal expressed solidarity with SPVM members while acknowledging all the victims of the tragedy.
The response from Canada’s Algerian and Maghrebi community was deeply felt. The Ligue maghrebine de soccer, which published the photograph of Benredouane with his teammates, gave the community a human image to mourn: not a police officer in formal uniform, but a young man among friends, smiling on a football pitch. “Fallen, but never forgotten,” was the SPVM’s closing phrase. The soccer league’s community said it differently, with the same meaning: a child of this community, respected and loved, is gone.
Another Canadian officer killed in the line of duty in the same month is profiled in our piece on Tarun Bali, the Ontario Provincial Police Constable killed near Hearst, Ontario, on 9 June 2026, thirteen days before Benredouane’s death.
Conclusion
Mohamed Lamine Benredouane did not have a long career. He had five years. But within those five years he served a complex, diverse, high-pressure neighbourhood with consistency and integrity, and on the morning of 22 June 2026 he ran toward danger. He was the first officer through the door. He was shot before the situation could be contained. He died doing what every officer who puts on a uniform accepts as the ultimate risk of the job. His wife was pregnant. His child was three years old. The city of Montreal mourned him. His soccer teammates mourned him. His community mourned him. He was 34 years old, and his name deserves to be remembered.
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