Man, 36, charged in killing of mother of five in another suspected femicide in Quebec

A 36-year-old Quebec man has been charged with second-degree murder of his partner, a mother of five children, in St-Donat.

Alexandre Boudreau Chartrand was charged Wednesday afternoon at the Joliette courthouse in the death of 32-year-old Andréanne Ouellet in St-Donat, a Lanaudiere town about 120 kilometres north of Montreal. She worked at a depanneur in the area and people who knew her say she was very quiet and kept to herself. Her colleagues said she told them she in what she called a “complicated” relationship. Ouellet's mother told Le Journal de Montreal her daughter was in a toxic relationship and she feared it wouldn’t end well.

Police say officers from the Matawinie station arrived at the scene at 2:45 p.m. Monday following a 911 call. They discovered the woman's lifeless body in a single-family residence on Montagne Road. Boudreau Chartrand was arrested Tuesday after a forensic team with the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) analyzed the scene where the killing took place.

None of her children were at the home at the time of the killing, according to Tremblay.  “The investigation shows that he had the intention to commit murder but it wasn’t premeditated,” said prosecutor Caroline Buist.

In tears, the suspect asked to see his children, but the court ordered him not to communicate with several people including his five children.