Ste Madeleine taxi driver shot dead outside home

Police are trying to determine the motive for the murder of a Ste Madeleine taxi driver who was shot dead outside his home on November 15.

The victim has been identified as 47-year-old Kennty Mitchell.

Police said Ste Madeleine police responded to a report of several gunshots at Richie Street, Ste Madeleine around 11.45 pm.

Officers found Mitchell's body lying on the ground with bullet wounds.

A district medical officer visited the scene and ordered the body removed to the Forensic Science Centre, St James for an autopsy.

Crime scene investigators found eight spent nine-millimetre shells near Mitchell's body.

Investigations are ongoing.

Ste Madeleine police said Mitchell was known to them from previous interactions.