drivers, the Popeyes, and the FLQ congregated around the Murray-Hill garage in Griffintown to protest Murray-Hill's monopoly at the Dorval Airport. Attempts by the Sûreté du Québec to stop the procession towards the garage were stopped by striking Montreal policemen. Many of the taxi drivers were armed with Molotov cocktails and were intent upon burning down the Murray-Hill company's garage. At the Murray-Hill headquarters, young people began to throw rocks and bricks through the windows and then threw Molotov cocktails. A sniper opened fire, which led one demonstrator to return fire. The Murray-Hill security guards were armed with 12-gauge shotguns and left several people seriously injured. One young man drove a Murray-Hill cab into a row of five limousines and three buses. The eight officers from the Sûreté du Québec were surrounded by the taxi drivers and, as a journalist from La Presse wrote, "were shouted down, roughed up, had their caps thrown into the air, and their badges ripped off." Sûreté Corporal Robert Dumas was killed by shots fired from the roof by security guards and the owner's son. Buses were overturned and burned. As the situation at the Murray-Hill garage escalated, the bulk of the Sûreté du Québec officers in the city were ordered to go there, which left the rest of the city exposed. Crowds began to smash windows and loot stores. In particular, the crowds targeted a high-end restaurant owned by Drapeau, La Vaisseau d'Or, which was thoroughly trashed and looted. Also targeted were pick-up points owned by the Murray-Hill company, McGill University, and the Montreal offices of IBM. Gangs of masked men, armed with guns, began systematically robbing the banks, but most bankers had made certain the day before that there was only a minimal amount of cash on hand and so limited their losses. One branch of the Banque d'Épargne that failed to do so lost $28,845, as three masked men smashed their way in. The Montreal Gazette reported on 8 October 1969: "Fires, explosions, assaults and a full-pitched gun-battle kept Montrealers huddled indoors as the reign of terror brought the city to the edge of chaos and resulted in the call for the Army help..... Hundreds of looters swept through downtown Montreal last night as the city suffered one of the worst outbreaks of lawlessness in its history. Hotels, banks, stores and restaurants around the Ste-Catherine-Peel Street axis had their windows smashed by