MONTREAL — Montreal police are analyzing DNA evidence they believe might allow them to determine who shot a Montreal crime reporter five times in the back.
Police will use material collected from a gun and a vehicle that was found shortly after Michel Auger was gunned down in the parking lot of Le Journal de Montreal last September.
“We’ll be matching (the DNA) to what’s in the bank already,” Cmdr. Andre Bouchard said Wednesday.
“The investigation is proceeding slowly but surely.”
Auger was shot shortly after he wrote a detailed account of the biker underworld.
Word of the DNA clues came the same day that police arrested two suspects in connection with the shooting.
A 51-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman were scheduled to appear in court Thursday. Bouchard said the two will each face 25 charges of breach of trust and fraudulent use of computer information. Police do not believe the two were involved in the actual shooting.
Bouchard said investigators reviewed all computer transactions involving Auger’s files. That led them to the female suspect, who police now believe had been digging up information on other people as well.
She worked in a store where she had access to insurance files, and had been previously questioned by police.
Bouchard said the woman is accused of passing confidential information about Auger to her boyfriend, who allegedly passed that information to the Hell’s Angels biker gang.
Bouchard added that the gang most likely traced Auger’s license plate number, allowing a shooter to follow him and try to kill him.
