One sentence Love Emmanuel Lubérisse received ended on Friday and another one began, which involves house arrest.
A man who played a role in a shooting in the parking lot of a shopping mall in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough that police believe was part of a rivalry between street gangs was sentenced to time served at the Montreal courthouse on Friday.
Love Emmanuel Lubérisse, 32, had served the equivalent of more than a 46-month prison term as of Friday when Quebec Court Judge Jean-Jacques Gagné agreed with a common suggestion, made by the Crown and defence lawyer Danièle Roy, that he be sentenced to the time he has already spent behind bars since his arrest on Nov. 13, 2021.
Gagné also agreed with another common suggestion that Lubérisse receive an additional 18-month sentence, which he can serve in the community, for possessing a prohibited firearm when he was arrested.
Lubérisse will be required to follow a series of conditions, including house arrest, while he serves the 18-month sentence.
“If you don’t respect the conditions you’ll be brought back before me,” Gagné warned Lubérisse. “Don’t be elastic (with the conditions).”
On Sept. 12, 2021, Lubérisse and two other men happened to notice Cédrick Dorval, 33, while he was inside an SAQ store at the Galeries Normandie shopping centre. Lubérisse then helped set up Dorval for an ambush. Minutes later, someone fired six shots at Dorval after he left the store. One of the bullets struck Dorval in the buttocks and he had to seek refuge inside a nearby pizza restaurant.
During Lubérisse’s trial, an expert witness from the Laval police said he and the other two men who spotted Dorval were affiliated with a street gang called 24 Gang. The witness also said Dorval is alleged to be part of a rival gang based in Laval called 2 die 4, which is allied with a gang called Villeray 99, based in Montreal’s Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Extension borough.
The same expert said 24 Gang and 2 die 4 are rivals and have been involved in a violent conflict that dates back more than a decade.
The two other men were acquitted in the same trial, but Gagné found Lubérisse guilty of discharging a firearm with the intention of harming a person and assault causing bodily harm.
A man who is alleged to have fired the shots, Marion Jude Lovinsky, 34, is scheduled to have a trial in November.
“Mr. Lubérisse has changed (judicial) districts to remove himself from the milieu,” Roy told the judge while asking that the new location he is moving to not be made public in court. “He wants to remove himself from the milieu as fast as possible. It was Mr. Lubérisse who suggested that he change districts. He doesn’t want his address to be (part of the court record). He doesn’t want to be tracked by anyone who might have the intention of tracking him down.”