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Quebec’s Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière is launching an investigation into Longueuil police after an officer fatally shot teen Nooran Rezayi last September.
The investigation will look into whether the Service de police de l’agglomération de Longueuil (SPAL) followed the right procedure when notifying Quebec’s police watchdog, known as the BEI, Lafrenière wrote in a social media post Monday morning.
On Sept. 21, 2025, Rezayi, who was unarmed, was shot dead by Longueuil police barely 10 seconds after officers parked their cruiser while responding to a 911 call.
The BEI was informed of the shooting an hour and 36 minutes after it happened.
“I’ve said it since the start, we need to get to the bottom of things,” Lafrenière wrote in his post.
The shooting happened in the borough of Saint-Hubert, which is in Lafrenière’s riding of Vachon.
Lafrenière’s announcement on Monday comes nearly six months after Longueuil Mayor Catherine Fournier called on the province to investigate the police force and its chief Patrick Bélanger.
The city released emails from November showing the director of the BEI, Brigitte Bishop, raising concerns with Bélanger over the time it took for Longueuil police to notify the watchdog about the shooting.
Bishop also questioned the police’s decision to conduct their own investigation in the shooting’s aftermath, saying that work should have been under the purview of the BEI.
Following the emails’ release, Lafrenière announced his intention to launch an investigation into the SPAL. At the time, he said he was considering waiting until the BEI and Montreal police —who launched a parallel criminal investigation in September — had completed their work.
The BEI wrapped up its investigation into Rezayi’s death in March and delivered its report to Quebec’s public prosecution service. The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal‘s investigation is still ongoing, Lafrenière said Monday.
Rezayi was hanging out with a group of teens in a residential neighbourhood moments before his death. That afternoon, a call was made to 911 reporting a group of armed and masked people roaming in the area. The BEI later confirmed that no firearm was recovered from the teen.
Michel Bouchard has been mandated to lead the province’s investigation, said Lafrenière on Monday. He will have six months to conduct his work.
Bouchard, who is a former Quebec deputy justice minister, led an administrative investigation into the inner workings of the SPVM in 2017 after allegations the police force was fabricating evidence came to light.
Emotions ran high at the funeral for Nooran Rezayi, a 15-year-old who died after being shot by police on Sept. 21 on a residential street in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil, Que. Circumstances around the incident are still unclear, with an investigation by Quebec’s police watchdog underway.
