Headlines from this weeks SPEC

Oct. 6, 2002

Man killed by a bear in the Matapedia Valley
Too many bears in the Gaspe and Lower Saint Lawrence, according to his son
Gilles Gagne

AMQUI - A 77 year old man from Amqui, Maurice Malenfant, was killed by a bear on September 29th, near his hunting camp along the Patapedia River, near Lac-Humqui, in a sector called ZEC Bas-Saint-Laurent.
The victim was attacked a few meters away from his camp by a three year old bear, weighing about 250 pounds. Mr. Malenfant and his sons Mario and Real had been moose hunting since the morning of the previous day. The victim was killed at 3h30 PM. They were supposed to go back to Amqui later that Sunday afternoon.
His son Real had seen the bear about 2,000 feet away from the camp half an hour earlier while doing a last ride on his all-terrain vehicle. At the same time, Maurice Malenfant had also gone for a ride, in his son's pick up truck.

Car crash kills two people in Port-Daniel West
Gilles Gagne

A car crash claimed the life of two people in Port Daniel West on September 25. One was a 15 year old resident of St. Godefroi, Randy Dow, a passenger in the vehicle that was struck by a car driven by Renaldo Antoine Degarie, 67, from Grand River, who was also killed in the accident.
For reasons that has not been clarified, Mr. Degarie, who was travelling east, left his side of the road and his car collided head on with the car in which Randy Dow was riding, along with his cousin Edmond, who was seriously injured in the crash.

The two convicts at large are seen everywhere
SQ checks every lead, assures Claude Ross

NEW CARLISLE - The Surete du Quebec has received more than 100 calls in regard to the escape of three convicts from the New Carlisle jail, on September 18. Two of them are still at large, and many citizens believe that they have remained in the New Carlisle area.

Patrick Lefebvre, 25, from Montreal was caught the following day in Causapscal, in the Matapedia Valley, but Alain Larocque, 36, from Saint Godefroy, and Yannick Fraser, 22, from Sherbrooke are now suspected of assault, break and enter and auto theft that took place on September 20th in Cullen's Brook, near Bonaventure. The victim, Donna McDonald, were severely beaten and had to be hospitalized.