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Outpouring Of Support For Muslim Community After Shooting At Quebec City Mosque

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published February 3, 2017 at 9:41 AM EST

A shooting at a mosque in Quebec City on Sunday left six dead and 19 wounded. Police arrested one suspect who has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder.
The shooting has shaken Quebec's Muslim community and raised concerns about the nationalist, anti-immigration rhetoric espoused by some groups in the province. The city has also seen an outpouring of support from both politicians and people in the community supporting multiculturalism.

VPR spoke with Kate McKenna, a reporter with the CBC in Montreal who's been covering the shooting, about the aftermath of the attack.

Listen to the full interview above.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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Liam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.

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