Sometime before midnight on Sunday, August 15, 1993 Fernand Lachance was in a restaurant with a fellow driver when he accepted a call to pick up a passenger at another restaurant. Mr. Lachance, 63, was a part-time driver for Taxi St. Jérôme, averaging about 15 hours a month. He was the father of four daughters and a son. The passenger turned out to be a 19-year-old drug addict with ten prior convictions for break-and-enter. He had his forearm in a cast due to cuts he had sustained in his latest break-in. The killer had spent the day consuming drugs and alcohol and was desperate for money to get back a quantity of drugs that his supplier had confiscated for non-payment of debts. The killer was armed with a knife that he had borrowed from a friend for the purpose of "doing" a taxi driver. Near St. Sophie, about seven kilometers from St. Jérôme he seized Mr. Lachance from behind and held a knife to his throat, demanding money. According to the killer Mr. Lachance refused to surrender his cash and threw himself against the steering wheel, with the result the knife slashed his throat. In the ensuing struggle Mr. Lachance was stabbed several times in the abdomen and the killer's cast was broken leaving pieces of plaster in the car. The killer dumped Mr. Lachance's body at the intersection of Val des Bois and Val des Lacs in Ste. Sophie and abandoned the cab in St. Jérôme at the corner of Jeannette-Desrosiers and Scott streets, about 150 meters from his own home. The robbery netted him $60. When the bloodstained killer went to a local hospital to have his cast repaired someone notified the police. Soon afterward the police learned of the abandoned cab and made the connection between its bloody interior and the man who showed up at the hospital. The killer was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison with no possibility of parole for ten years.

Fernand Lachance is buried in Cimetière de Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Jérôme, Québec. (Source: Culture et Communications Québec.) Mr. Lachance's death occurred two weeks after the murder of Fernand Talbot. He was reported to have been the 19th Québec taxi driver to have been murdered in 15 years. About 250 people attended Mr. Lachance's funeral, including the son of Claude Wilson. Many cabs joined the funeral procession which was led by the manager of Taxi St. Jérôme in a car carrying a large floral display on its trunk. Mr. Lachance's death provoked debates over safety measures for taxi drivers. Le Devoir published a lengthy article on August 18, 1993 quoting drivers and owners who opposed the idea of installing protective shields in cabs.