(died March 1994, aged 54), murdered man, drug dealer. (Gerry Cuerrier) Cuerrier was a petty criminal living in Alexandria, who made a living by drug dealing and receiving stolen goods, with some involvement also in loan-sharking and counterfeiting. He was a homosexual, who sometimes propositioned the young men who came to buy drugs. A former motorcycle racer, he continued his sporting interests by playing on a seniors’ hockey team in Alexandria. His body was found 28 March 1994. He had been shot to death a few days before, probably on 23 March. It appeared from testimony that during the period of some days between Cuerrier’s death and the discovery of the body many people in Alexandria knew that he was dead without informing the authorities and some of them used the opportunity to ransack his house. Two youngsters whose names could not be published on account of their age were sentenced to fourteen and fifteen months respectively for manslaughter in his death. At one of the trials resulting from the death, both the judge and the defence lawyer sharply criticized the serious drug problem in Alexandria. (Glengarry News 28 Feb. 1996, Standard Freeholder 24 Feb. 1996, comment on these observations GN 6 & 20 March 1996 & SFH 2 March 1996) At this time the drug problem in the high school in Alexandria came in for much discussion. Late in 1996, Jason Horvath, 21, a former student at Glengarry District High School, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for thirteen years for his part in the killing of Cuerrier.

     With regard to the killing of a gay man it may be noted that a few years before a gay man called Sheldon (Shelley) Larocque was killed in another sensational case in Alexandria.

Glengarry News 30 March 1994 ff. for the Cuerrier murder, and 30 Oct. 1996 ff. for the Horvath conviction