Major shooting at Montreal college; 2 dead, 19 injured

[Brent88]

Similarities to Columbine...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

Canadian TV reports 4 dead, 16 injured. 1 shooter killed himself, another was killed by police.

[80s_Fan]

Originally Posted by Brent88

Similarities to Columbine...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

Canadian TV reports 4 dead, 16 injured. 1 shooter killed himself, another was killed by police.

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I woke up and turned the tv on; and I put it on cnn and saw the story and couldn't believe it. When will all this violence end? => (Never) and it's so sad and tragic when people do such things not to mention scary.

[Jenya]

So far only 2 died. A student and the gunman.

[TripperFan]

Once again CNN is waaaay behind the news. 19 injured in serious or critical condition (not 11 as CNN reported - they also have released the guy's name and details).

Two now dead - one is the gunman who's name is (pardon the spelling) Kimvar Gill. Was apparently fascinated by some stupid "Columbine" video game (I can't believe they would even market such a thing). On his web blog said he was suicidal and wanted to go out in a flurry of gunfire.

How 'bout stepping away from the computer and visiting a shrink's office instead jerk!


Corrected Report from Yahoo:

MONTREAL - A man with a black trench coat whose shooting rampage in a Montreal college killed one person and wounded 19 others before he was slain by police said on a blog in his name that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine shootings.

The gunman who opened fire at Dawson College on Wednesday was Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal, a police official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because authorities were not ready to announce it publicly yet.

Six victims remained in critical condition, including two in extremely critical condition.

The official said police had searched Gill's home.

In postings on a Web site called VampireFreaks.com, blogs in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle and donning a long black trench coat and combat boots.

One photo has a tombstone with his name printed on it — below it the phrase: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."

The last of six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before the gunmen was shot to death after the college shooting.

He said on the site that he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre," an Internet-based computer game that simulated the April 20, 1999, shootings at the Colorado high school by two of its students that left 13 people dead.

"His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death," he wrote on his vampirefreaks.com profile. "He is not a people person."

He wrote that he hates jocks, preppies, country music and hip-hop.

"I think I have an obsession with guns ... muahahaha," is the inscription below another picture of Gill aiming the barrel of the gun at the camera.

"Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a picture of Gill grimacing.

He wrote that he is 6-foot-1, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. He said his weakness is laziness and that he fears nothing. Responding to the question, "How do you want to die?" Gill replied "like Romeo and Juliet — or in a hail of gunfire."

Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the lessons learned from other mass shootings had taught police to try to stop such assaults as quickly as possible.

"Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives," he said.

Witnesses said Gill started shooting outside the college, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word. At times, he hid behind vending machines before emerging to take aim — at one point at a teenager who tried to photograph him with his cell phone.

Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack.

The gunman opened fire haphazardly at no target in particular, until he saw the police and took aim at them, Delorme said.

Police hid behind a wall as they exchanged fire with the gunman, whose back was against a vending machine, said student Andrea Barone, who was in the cafeteria. He said the officers proceeded cautiously because many students were trapped around the assailant, who yelled "Get back! Get back!" every time an officer tried to move closer.

Eventually, Barone said, the gunman went down in a hail of gunfire.

Delorme said some officers were at the school on an unrelated matter when the shooting erupted. He said reinforcements rushed to the scene and took part in the shooting.

Scores of students fled into the streets after the shooting began. Some had clothes stained with blood; others cried and clung to each other. Two nearby shopping centers and a daycare center also were evacuated and subway service was disrupted.

"I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care, he was just shooting at everybody," said student Devansh Smri Vastava. "There were cops firing. It was so crazy."

Police said the attacker had a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons. They did not provide details.

Although police initially suggested the gunman had killed himself, Delorme later said at a news conference that "based on current information, the suspect was killed by police."

"Today we have witnessed a cowardly and senseless act of violence unfold at Montreal's Dawson College," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "Our primary concern right now is to ensure the safety and recovery of all those who were injured during this tragedy."

The school was closed until Monday.

Canada's worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine, 25, killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989, before shooting himself.

That shooting spurred efforts for new gun laws achieved mainly as the results of efforts by survivors and relatives of Lepine's victims.

Dawson, with about 10,000 students, was the first English-language institution in Quebec's network of university preparatory colleges when it was founded in 1969.

[Janice]

How tragic. What a nutcase.

[Jenya]

That guy followed the goth culture. This is the second time a murder took place in the name of this freak cult. A 12-year old goth girl and her 22-year old boyfriend killed her parents and her brother back in April in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

[Jenya]

Here's the Medicine Hat story (a few months old):

Medicine Hat police charge third person in slayings of Alberta family

Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, May 04, 2006

MEDICINE HAT, AB (CP) - Police have arrested a third person in the slayings of a southern Alberta family last month.

Kacy Lancaster, 19, of Medicine Hat faces a charge of being an accessory to murder after the fact. Police allege the young woman helped two others accused in the murder by trying to get rid of evidence. Lancaster was scheduled to appear in court in Medicine Hat on Thursday.

Jeremy Allan Steinke, 23, and his 12-year-old friend each face three counts of first-degree murder. She cannot be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The bodies of a 42-year-old man, 48-year-old woman and an eight-year-old child were found in their home April 23. Autopsies have been performed, but police have said they will not release information about how the family died.

Both Steinke and the 12-year-old appeared in court earlier this week. Steinke was sent for a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is fit to stand trial. The pre-teen, who appeared in youth court, was sent to the Calgary Young Offender Centre. She cannot by tried in adult court because of her age.

Also this week, a funeral was held in Sudbury, Ont., for the victims, who were remembered as a loving, devoted family.

Steinke's mother, Jacqueline May, has said her son had no such advantage. She said he had a rocky childhood without a strong father figure, but was still a good boy in her eyes.

She and other relatives refute reports from friends that he was into goth youth subculture. They say his personality began to change over the last few months after he and his fiancee broke up.

SOURCE: Canada.com