
Phil Boudreault has won a lot of fights. Photo via YouTube.
A former Olympic boxer and current high-ranking member of the Hells Angels was the target of a drive-by shooting in Quebec this weekend.
41-year-old Phil Boudreault, a Sudbury man who won bronze in the light-welterweight boxing division of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was dubbed the “Sudbury Sensation”, was shot near Lachute, Quebec, Saturday morning in what police are saying was likely a gang-related incident.
“It’s related to outlaw motorcyclists,” Sgt. Marc Tessier of Sûreté du Québec, the province’s police force, told VICE. Although he declined to confirm the name of Boudreault, sources have confirmed to other publications that it was indeed Boudreault who was shot.
Tessier told VICE that the shooting happened around 10:30 AM and that the victim was on his motorcycle, accompanied by another biker, when a blue-and-grey SUV pulled up and opened fire. Witnesses say around 10-15 shots went off before the vehicle fled.
According to police, both men were injured—Boudreault reportedly fell off his bike and was found by authorities slumped in a ditch—but escaped with non-life-threatening injuries.
Boudreault, who is currently the vice-president of the Ontario Hells Angels chapter, has been known in the crime world by the nickname “Crazy” for over a decade due to his numerous encounters with the law. In 2005, he was involved in a brutal bar attack that netted him two years in prison. After being released in 2007, he was placed on a five-year supervision order, but later violated it and was sentenced to 90 days in prison in 2013. He had told a Sudbury court that he wanted to leave the city with his family.
“We’re moving. We’re out of here….I will pack my bags and be out of this community for good,” he said, according the Sudbury Star.
“I have overstayed my welcome, obviously.”
James Dubro, a crime expert and former documentarian who spent decades investigating Canada’s criminal enterprises, told VICE that the Hells Angels “don’t really have any major rivals” in Quebec, but said it wouldn’t be surprising for a small street gang to try their luck at taking out a leader.
“In Quebec now, the situation is that the Hells Angels are still number one, but everything is in flux. The police [crackdown], so many people being in jail, so many changes to the mafia, street gangs coming along. They’re all a bit weakened, but HA is still on top.”
Boudreault was on his way to a motorcycle show in Laval when the shooting happened, although he does not live in Quebec.
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