MONTREAL — A man charged this week in connection with a murder and separate sexual assault 22 years ago is suspected by police of having other alleged victims.
Marc-Andre Grenon, 47, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault in the death of Guylaine Potvin, 19, in April 2000. He was also charged with attempted murder and aggravated sexual assault in connection with a violent attack that occurred about 200 kilometres south, in Quebec City, in July 2000.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Potvin was found dead on April 28, 2000, in her apartment in Jonquiere, now a borough of Saguenay, Que., north of Quebec City. She lived with two female roommates, also students, who were not home when the killing took place inside their Panet Street residence. More than two decades later, Quebec provincial police arrested Grenon on Wednesday in Granby, Que., east of Montreal. He appeared by video on Thursday in courtrooms in Saguenay and in Quebec City. Grenon remains detained until his next court appearance on Nov. 21.
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