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Trial begins in 2021 drive-by shooting that killed Montreal teen Meriem Boundaoui
Two men face first-degree murder and attempted murder charges for a 2021 drive-by shooting linked to a dispute over parking spots, killing a 15-year-old girl.
- On Jan. 13, 2026, a jury trial opened in Montreal for Aymane Bouadi and Salim Touaibi, charged in the 2021 drive-by killing of 15-year-old Meriem Boundaoui.
- Prosecutor Katerine Brabant told jurors the shooting stemmed from a parking dispute between a family that owned a barber shop and a family that owned a grocery store, while Boundaoui was an innocent bystander.
- Boundaoui was in the passenger seat when bullets hit the vehicle in Montreal's St-Léonard borough, and Montreal police later arrested suspects linked to the drive-by shooting.
- Jurors heard that the attack killed a 15-year-old and led to attempted-murder counts tied to the Feb. 7, 2021 shooting, with trial coverage published Jan. 13, 2026.
- Taken days apart by Montreal police, the accused were arrested more than a year after the shooting, court records show.
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On February 7, 2021, Meriem Boundaoui found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The young girl without history took a seat in a vehicle in Saint-Léonard before being killed with a bullet in her head. The young victim allegedly paid the price of a banal quarrel between two families of traders fighting for parking spaces.
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Trial begins in 2021 drive-by shooting that killed Montreal teen Meriem Boundaoui
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Leaning Left10Leaning Right0Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution77% Left
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