The family and friends of 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva, however, shot dead up on the parking lot in Henri-Bourassa Park, up there in North Montreal, on the intersection of Pascal and Rolland streets, would no doubt obviously beg to differ. For them, Dany was the good guy and Lapointe the monster. Nothing more than a cold-blooded killer, killing for the feeling of power and lauded as the good guy by the community who he really serves.

I’m guessing that the handyman might too, in time, think that they’re both merely cold-blooded murderers, Lapointe and Muller. Once the pain of their loss fades, as the days on the calendar come and go, as the seasons change, the years slip by.

Yes, at some point, somewhere distant in the future, they might think that, if I were ever stupid enough to ask.

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