At about 4:25 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, November 4, 2001, Mohamed Sadry picked up two men who attacked him as the car passed 5005 MacDonald in Notre Dame de Grace. Sadry was stabbed several times in the neck and body and then thrown from the moving car as the killers drove away. A local resident heard Mr. Sadry's cries and called police. He died in hospital a few hours later. At about 10 p.m. Sunday night Mr. Sadry's taxi was seen parked in front of 1201 Hope near the intersection of Atwater, close by the old Montréal Forum. The next morning the car was set afire. Police speculated that the killers returned after abandoning the taxi hoping that the fire would destroy any clues.

In April, 2003, police arrested a 22-year-old man, originally from Ontario, who was awaiting trial in Bordeaux Jail for an unrelated crime. Police found a knife in his possession that bore traces of Mr. Sadry's blood. The man was charged with Mr. Sadry's murder. Mr. Sadry, 36, came to Canada from Morocco in 1991. The father of a two-year-old daughter, he had been driving taxi for the A-11 taxi company for two years.