A 65-year-old Repentigny man is facing charges after allegedly drunkenly firing a shotgun in his apartment and injuring a young woman who was sleeping in her bed two floors above.
Police in Repentigny arrested the man on Friday after responding to a shooting in a four-storey building on Notre-Dame Street near Levesque street in the municipality just east of Montreal.
Spokesperson Bruno Marier said that the 23-year-old woman was in her bed two floors above the suspect who was on the ground floor.
She suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and was rushed to the hospital.
The man, who l was arrested and appeared in the Joliette courthouse on Saturday on assault and weapons charges.