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Quebec’s provincial police department and the province’s police oversight agency are investigating after two people reported missing this week were found dead inside a car in St-Léonard on Thursday.
Giuseppe Arcuri, 59, and his mother, Lucia Giovanna Arcuri, 76, had been reported missing on Wednesday. Police are treating their deaths as suspicious, but would not comment further given the ongoing investigations.
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In a statement, the Sûreté du Québec said Montreal police were alerted about the deaths shortly after 12:30 a.m. Thursday. The car was located in a commercial parking lot on Pascal-Gagnon St.
The Sûreté du Québec has now taken over the criminal investigation.
The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, on the other hand, will be investigating how the Montreal police handled the case before the bodies were found.
In an initial missing-persons notice issued Wednesday, the Montreal police had noted Giuseppe Arcuri was last seen Tuesday morning at a restaurant business on Perras Blvd. in the Rivière-des-Prairies district.
Police said they had reason to believe Arcuri and his mother, with whom he lived in St-Léonard, were together. They also noted they feared for his safety since he had made “disturbing comments before his disappearance.”
Police said Lucia Giovanna Arcuri was suffering from memory loss and had left her home without her medication or cane, which she needed to get around.
The car the bodies were located in Thursday appeared to match the description of Giuseppe Arcuri’s car provided by police this week.
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