A South Shore man who only recently began serving a sentence in a federal penitentiary has been charged with carrying out a homicide in Montreal last year, just weeks before he was sentenced.
Lentzky Xavier, 20, of Ste-Catherine, was charged at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday with the Sept. 3 murder of Donald Cesar, a 22-year-old man who had close ties to a Montreal street gang. Cesar was the half-brother of Chenier (Big) Dupuy, a well-known Montreal street gang leader who was murdered in August 2012.
Cesar was shot in Montreal North following a series of other street-gang related shootings that occurred in northern Montreal in the weeks that preceded his death. Xavier is charged with first-degree murder in the case.
According to court records, he was arrested by the Montreal police on Oct. 8 and was charged with possession of a prohibited firearm. He pleaded guilty to the offence roughly six weeks later, on Nov. 26, and was sentenced to a three-year prison term on the same date.
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