Owner of a Montreal fashion boutique where two men were murdered on Thursday has been arrested.

Montreal police have reportedly arrested the ex-street gang leader who owns the Old Montreal store where two people were killed and two others injured in yesterday's gangland shooting.Montreal police will only confirm that the person they arrested was at the scene of the shooting.Reports say it's Ducarme Jospeh, the ex-street gang leader who owns the Old Montreal store where the shooting happened.He was reportedly arrested with two other men. They all face charges in an aggravated assault last fall. Joseph was ordered not to communicate with them pending trial.Montreal police inspector of special investigations Charles Mailloux says the charge is breach of bail conditions.Joseph was reportedly arrested so he could be protected and put in isolation or because he and his two co-accused were plotting retaliation.Mailloux won't say if Joseph was the intended victim in the shooting."It's one of the scenarios we work on," Mailloux told CJAD News.
The suspect will be officially charged in the morning via video conference at the Montreal courthouse. of a Montreal fashion boutique where two men were murdered on Thursday has been arrested.
The shop owner hasn't been formally identified, but police say he is a 41-year-old man. Police say the arrest is tied to allegations that the man violated his bail violations.
The suspect will likely appear in court through a video link on Saturday.
Police have been reluctant to comment on the man's identity, but business directory records show that the owner is listed as 41-year-old Ducarme Joseph.
Court records show that Joseph was charged with weapons violations last September, CTV Montreal reports. His bail conditions stated that he could not communicate with people linked to criminal activity.
The arrest comes a day after Old Montreal was shut down by a brazen, daylight shooting that killed two people and injured two others.
Sources have said that the shooting bears all the hallmarks of a professional hit, and police said that the fashion boutique had been on their radar.
The incident happened Thursday afternoon, when two gunmen walked into the Flawnego clothing boutique and started shooting. Four people were shot, two of whom died. Police were alerted about the shooting at 1:45 p.m.
The killers fled the scene on foot, discarding parts of their disguises -- including a Rastafarian-style dreadlocked wig -- into the street.
Detectives remain at the scene on Friday, though most police tape has been removed from the crime scene located near the city's well-known Notre-Dame Basilica.
CTV Montreal's Rob Lurie said Yvan Delorme, the city's police chief, had made a personal appearance at the scene yesterday, an indication that the force was taking the incident very seriously.
Montreal police Const. Anie Lemieux said police had been watching the location where the shooting took place for some time. And she said investigators have theories as to who the killers were seeking to harm.
Lemieux described the suspects as two tall, black men who wore disguises that included ski-masks and wigs.
"A lot of elements were seized on the scene of this incident and also around the place where this incident took place," Lemieux said.
Four victims
One victim drove himself to hospital after the violence. Two of the victims have died, another two were in stable condition after the shooting.
Lurie reported that three of the four shooting victims are known to police and they ranged in age from 27 to 59 years of age.
The fourth victim was an apprentice electrician who is in stable condition with serious injuries. Police believe "he was just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Lurie said.
Several witnesses were present at the time of the shooting, including construction workers and other bystanders, some of whom saw the killers taking off their disguises as they fled the scene.
"Some people did see the suspects leaving the scene, walking through the scene and sort of shedding their disguises, and so police are looking for that," Beauchemin said.
Rizzuto connection?
Police sources have indicated investigators believe the shooting could be linked to the December murder of Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto, who is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Colorado prison for racketeering.
But the Montreal police force has made no official comment on the possible link to the Rizzuto murder.
Experts have long predicted reprisals for the younger Rizzuto, who was only 42 years old when he was gunned down in December. His killing remains unsolved.
Nick Rizzuto Jr., was named for his grandfather, 86-year-old Nicolo Rizzuto, who pleaded guilty to two charges of tax evasion in a Montreal court last month.