Two Men Charged With First-Degree Murder in Windsor Hospital Parking-Lot Homicide

Windsor police have charged two men with first-degree murder after a 44-year-old Windsor resident was found unresponsive in the parking lot of Windsor Regional Hospital’s Metropolitan Campus and later pronounced dead in the emergency department. The accused are 31-year-old Brandon Gerald Leigh and 25-year-old Robert Joseph Labrecque, and investigators say the suspects and the victim were known to one another.

Local reporting places the discovery in the pre-dawn hours, with Windsor Star and OurWindsor saying officers found the man just after 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 18. Other outlets, including CBC and an original incident summary, list Feb. 19; police have said the victim “had sustained a fatal injury just prior to being transported to the hospital” and was left outside the facility, according to released wording from the Windsor Police Service.

Brandon Gerald Leigh was tracked to a LaSalle address in the 9200 block of Broderick Road and arrested after a warrant was executed by the Windsor police Emergency Services Unit. Multiple local accounts say that operation took place the same day as the discovery and that officers took Leigh into custody just before 9 p.m. at the Broderick Road residence; he has been charged with first-degree murder.

Robert Joseph Labrecque was arrested separately in the 500 block of Windsor Avenue by members of the Windsor police problem-oriented policing unit on outstanding warrants for breaching his probation. CBC reports Labrecque was arrested shortly before 9 p.m. on a Tuesday and was charged with first-degree murder while in custody. Windsor Star says officers with the major crimes unit continued the investigation that led them to identify Labrecque less than a week after the injured man’s death.

Investigative responsibility has involved multiple Windsor Police Service units. The Emergency Services Unit executed the warrant that led to Leigh’s arrest, the problem-oriented policing unit arrested Labrecque on outstanding warrants, and the major crimes unit continued the homicide investigation. AM800CKLW noted this was Windsor’s first murder of 2026, a detail cited as part of the local reporting on the case.

A resident interviewed by Windsor Star described seeing someone dropped off at the hospital with “either a bullet wound or a stab wound,” a witness account not confirmed by investigators. Windsor police have not released the deceased man’s name or a formal cause of death, and the homicide investigation remains ongoing; police continue to describe the incident as isolated and have reiterated that “the suspects and the victim were known to each other, and the incident is believed to be isolated.”