LONGUEUIL — Drops of blood were still visible on the sidewalk of a quiet residential neighbourhood on Montreal’s South Shore on Monday, where a group of teenagers gathered to mourn the death of their friend who was shot by police over the weekend.

“Why did they shoot this 15-year-old?” said Moustapha Tamani, the father of a girl who was friends with the victim. Tamani accompanied the group of young people, students at nearby André-Laurendeau high school, to the scene of the shooting in the St-Hubert borough of Longueuil, Que.

“He was a good boy, a boy who was searching for himself, who wanted to grow up, happy,” Tamani said.

Quebec’s independent police watchdog, which is investigating Sunday’s shooting, did not identify the victim or their age, saying only that police had responded to a

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