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| Corrections Officer Diane Lavigne
Département du Québec des Corrections
Québec
End of Watch: Thursday, June 26, 1997 Biographical Info
Age: 42
Tour of Duty: 11 years
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Thursday, June 26, 1997
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Not available Corrections Officer Diane Lavigne was shot and killed from ambush as she left work at Bordeaux Maximum Security Prison in Montreal. She was struck by several bullets fired from another vehicle occupied by members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang.
The leader of the gang was arrested in 2001 and charged with numerous counts, including the murders of Officer Lavigne and Officer Pierre Rondeau, who was shot and killed in a similar ambush on September 8, 1997. One of the murderers was later murdered himself and a second murderer became an informant to help arrest the gang's leader.
Officer Lavigne had served at Bordeaux Maximum Security Prison for 11 years and had recently been assigned to monitoring convicts on the outside.
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