ustyna Kozyra

By Chelsey St-Pierre
The Suburban

Michel Langlois, 62, a man serving a life sentence after he brutally stabbed and killed his neighbour in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, was granted day parole. The victim, 27-year old Justyna Kozyra, was stabbed fourteen times near her residence in an apartment complex on Brunswick Boulevard in September, 2011.

A dispute between the janitor of the two-building apartment complex and Kozyra began in 2010 over her failure to pick up her dog’s poop on the property. The dispute continued until her death, in 2011. Langlois was the janitor’s boyfriend at that time and decided to involved himself in the argument with Kozyra, confronting her about the issue on multiple occasions.

The couple made several complaints to the city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux’s public security service. On September 8, 2011, while Langlois was gardening on the grounds of the apartment complex in the company of a public security agent and his boyfriend, Kozyra approached them to confront them about their meeting. Langlois had a knife in his hand when she approached them and he assaulted and repeatedly stabbed the victim in front of witnesses while his boyfriend and the security agent tried to stop him.

Langlois was arrested and the victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition where she was later declared dead. Langlois was convicted of second-degree murder with a minimum of 10 years imprisonment before he could apply for parole.

Following a lengthy psychiatric evaluation and the decision in his favour by the parole board, he will be released to a halfway house in Laval where he will reside for the next six months. n