Montreal shooting victim was convicted killer

A man killed in a double homicide in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district Sunday was a convicted killer, police sources confirmed Monday.

Kirk Murray, 47, was released on full parole in 2003 after serving time for killing two men near the Verdun Yacht Club in 1983.

The other victim Monday, a 51-year old man, was not known to police, and his name was not released.

Police believe the shootings, which took place in the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant, were the work of a hired hit man.

Police received a 911 call around 5 p.m. reporting gunshots at the intersection of Saint-Jacques and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue streets.

They arrived at the parking lot to find one man with multiple gunshot wounds lying on the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers found a second wounded man sitting in a nearby car. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.

A man who works nearby said he ran to investigate after hearing seven or eight gunshots.

"The man was already on the floor lying there and there was already a woman looking at him when I got there," said the man, who asked that he not be identified. "She said she was a nurse. The man [who] was lying on the floor was not moving at all — blood everywhere around his head."

Police are investigating reports of a man running from the scene shortly after the shootings.

"It makes you nervous to come to a restaurant and you hear there is a shooting," said patron Mike Ghadban. "And I come here often."

The incident happened not far from the location where Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of reputed Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto, was gunned down last month.