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The violence came at a frenetic pace Sunday: two homicides, three shootings, a pair of carjackings and a high speed pursuit that took police from east-end Montreal to a shopping mall in Brossard.

Frédérick Gingras, 21, is in custody and police suspect he’s responsible for the majority of Sunday’s carnage. They allege Gingras fatally gunned down a 49-year-old woman outside an Esso station in Pointe-aux-Trembles, stole her Jeep and crashed it before stealing another vehicle at gunpoint half an hour later.

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The 21-year-old will appear in court on Tuesday.

Investigators are trying to determine if the suspect has any connection to a homicide that was reported just a few minutes before the gas station shooting.

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Police found a 20-year-old shot to death in an apartment on 1st Ave. and Ste-Catherine St. — about two kilometres southwest of the Esso station — at around 11 p.m. Sunday. The motive in both killings is unclear but one police source says officers found drugs at the apartment.