Montreal father injured while protecting family from gunfire; accused appears in court
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A Montreal father of three was scheduled to go into surgery Wednesday after being injured while trying to protect his family from gunfire on the West Island last weekend.
A Montreal father of three was scheduled to go into surgery Wednesday after being injured while trying to protect his family from gunfire on the West Island last weekend.
His wife, Sirin El Jundi, said she still can't believe what happened.
"I'm shocked. I'm shocked," she said in an interview at her home on Wednesday." You never think that something like this will happen to us."
Rain forced the family to return home early from a camping trip last Sunday. When some of them were unloading the car, a man who was being chased by police tried to steal their vehicle. Around 30 to 40 shots were fired.
When El Jundi heard screams coming from outside, she went out and saw her husband, Houssam Abdallah, 52, and eldest son, 18-year-old Abdel Rahman Abdallah, bleeding on the ground.
"My husband is not OK. He needs to have surgery today. He had an operation. We hope that everything will be OK," El Jundi said.
