Franklin Dimitrios Shoofey, known professionally as Frank Shoofey, was a 44-year-old Montreal criminal-defense lawyer when he was gunned down outside his fifth-floor office at 1030 Cherrier Street on October 15, 1985. The assailant approached him in the hallway and fired repeated shots at close range, causing wounds to his head and torso; the gunman fled and left investigators with few immediate clues.

A caller to the Montreal Gazette claimed responsibility on behalf of a purported Red Army Liberation Front, but Canadian intelligence said no such group was known and the claim was treated as possibly intended to misdirect investigators. Attention instead focused on Shoofey’s long ties to organized-crime figures and his involvement with Montreal’s Hilton boxing family, including disputes tied to American promoter Don King and the Cotroni organization. Allegations have circulated that a contract had been placed on Shoofey and that Réal Simard later implicated Frank Cotroni, but no charges or convictions followed.

A 2010 statement by a Montreal police commander said investigators believed they knew the killer and that the person was serving a lengthy sentence for another crime, yet no public identification or prosecution has been reported. The murder remains officially unsolved.