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Five other men were eventually sentenced for the escape from the St-Jérôme Detention Centre. Their sentences ranged from seven years for Provencal (who just happened to be nearby when the helicopter landed and decided to jump on board), to the 15-year prison term Marchisio received. Marchisio was the person who pointed a gun at the helicopter pilot and ordered him to land on the roof of the detention centre. Marchisio also fired several shots toward SQ officers after he and Hudon-Barbeau were found in Chertsey.

On Nov. 17, a jury at the courthouse in St-Jérôme found Hudon-Barbeau guilty of the first-degree murder of Pierre-Paul Fortier and the second-degree murder of Fréderick Murdock. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Vincent Pietrantonio and another man who cannot be identified because of a publication ban. Murdock and Pietrantonio were shot on Oct. 12, 2012, at Pietrantonio’s home in Ste-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, a town about 80 kilometres northwest of Montreal. Pietrantonio, a known loan shark, managed to escape and sought help at a nearby police station, but Murdock, Pietrantonio’s bodyguard, died inside the home.

Six days later, on Oct. 18, 2012, Fortier was shot at a construction site behind a hotel in St-Sauveur.

When Hudon-Barbeau’s trial began in late September, prosecutor Steve Baribeau told the jury the actual shooter in each case was Ryan Wolfson, a hit man who was acting on orders from Hudon-Barbeau. Wolfson was convicted of murdering Murdock and the attempted murder of Pietrantonio last year.

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