Police seek suspect in Dorval murder

BY ANDY BLATCHFORD

andy.blatchford@transcontinental.ca

Police are looking for a man they believe was involved in the murder of an 18-year-old woman Monday night in a Dorval apartment.

Police say Karina Paola Esquivel Moya, who was visiting a friend in the building, had apparently been beaten.

Investigators are looking for James Gould, 23, as well as two witnesses who were at the murder scene. He is described as black, stands six-feet tall, weighs 200 pounds and has several tatoos.

A woman called police at 10:35 p.m. to report she had been assaulted, said Const. Robert Mansueto of Montreal police.

While she was on the line she changed her mind and didn’t want police to come to the Racine Avenue apartment building.

As per police procedure, Mansueto said a patrol car was dispatched to the address.

Officers found the injured woman in the brown building, which overlooks Highway 20. She was sent to hospital, where she later died from her injuries.

The exact cause of her death is unknown, he said.

Second-floor tenant Lianne Watt said she heard a “big noise” on the level above her between 10 and 10:30 p.m. on Monday.

“It sounded like somebody fell and there was struggling on the floor,” she said yesterday morning. “I didn’t think anything of it I just thought it was a regular fight.”

Watt, who was interviewed by police, said she did not hear voices during the struggle because the concrete walls of the building muffle most sounds.

She does not know the victim or the apartment’s occupants.

“It’s a very quiet building,” she said. “It used to be just older people (who lived here), but now there are a lot more younger people.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.