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Saturday, January 8, 2011

CANADA, Wounded man questioned over murder

OFF THE WIRE
JEFF CUMMINGS,   QMI Agency
Wounded man questioned over murder

EDMONTON - A man wanted for questioning in a December homicide turned up with gunshot wounds in southwest Edmonton Thursday.
The wounded man, identified by a police source as Jesse Flamant, arrived at a home around 9 a.m. asking for help. He remains in hospital with non-life threatening bullet wounds.
Flamant is well known to police.
Investigators are now questioning Flamant about where and when he was shot. And they are now able to ask him about the Dec. 14 slaying of Andrew Block, 31, who had ties to the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club.
The club is a notorious gang that was once involved in a bloody Montreal turf war with the Hells Angels in the 1990s.
The war between the Rock Machine and the Hells Angels lasted eight years and resulted in 160 deaths in Quebec, including two prison guards and several innocent victims.
Block was found dead in the front passenger seat of a black, four-door truck that was parked on a garage parking pad.
There was a small hole in the passenger seat below the headrest.
Block was convicted of manslaughter back in 2001 after Victor Chalifoux, 25, was killed by a stray bullet during a house party in Sept. 25, 2000.
Chalifoux was sleeping when he was hit by the bullet when two teenage girls and two men in the home started passing around a .30-calibre pistol at 4 a.m.
jeff.cummings@sunmedia.ca