Montreal Shooting's Update 2 dead

[minks]

Montreal gunman called himself 'angel of death'

59 minutes ago





The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a Montreal college Wednesday apparently left an online journal with chilling comments and photos of himself brandishing a rifle.



Kimveer Gill was the author of an online diary posted at the website vampirefreaks.com.



Gill, 25, was dressed entirely in black, wearing a trench coat and armed with a rifle when he arrived at Dawson College on Wednesday afternoon.



One woman was shot to death and 19 people were injured, at least six of them critically, in the rampage that followed. Montreal police said the victims ranged in age from 17 to 48.



On Thursday, police identified the dead student as Anastasia De Sousa, an 18-year-old woman from the greater Montreal area, who was a business student at Dawson College.



De Sousa was shot dead inside the building, said Montreal's ambulance agency.



"The environment was still very hostile when we got there," said André Champagne, a spokesman for Urgences Santé.



Paramedics realized very quickly that there was nothing they could do to resuscitate or revive the young woman. "Her wounds were fatal, and the death was declared on site," he said.



De Sousa's body was removed from the college early Thursday morning.



Chaos on campus



Investigators with the Montreal police major crimes unit and the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police force, spent the night picking through the crime scene to collect forensic evidence.



Eyewitnesses say they saw a tall, Goth-looking man in a long black coat drive up near the college on Maisonneuve Street in a black Pontiac Sunfire at around 12:30 p.m. He got out of his car, opened the trunk and removed a rifle.



The gunman walked in through the college's southwest entrance. Although witnesses said they saw him shoot at least one person outside, police later said they believed all of the shots were fired within the building. They said the first gunshots were heard at 12:41 p.m.



It was lunchtime and the school was packed when the gunman entered through the main doors and headed to the cafeteria. "He was shooting randomly," said Dawson student Michel Boyer, who witnessed the gunfire. "I'm not sure who he was shooting at, but the [cafeteria] atrium was completely cleared."



Chaos ensued, said Boyer. "The adrenaline was rushing. It was like something from a movie. It was completely unbelievable and incredible."



The first police officers were on the scene within three minutes, said Montreal police chief Yvan Delorme. By coincidence, they had been called to the college on an unrelated drug investigation.



Officers with guns drawn rushed into the building, at which point witnesses reported hearing more shots fired. Montreal police confirmed that the officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect, and that the suspect was hit by at least one officer.



Police said the gunman died during the shootout, but backed away from a claim Wednesday night that the suspect was killed by police.

"We know that shots were fired, both by this man and the police," said Sûreté du Québec spokesman François Doré.

An autopsy is expected to confirm the cause of death, said Doré.

Panic in the streets

Pandemonium broke out inside the college and on surrounding streets minutes after the shooting began.

Hundreds of students poured out of the school, running with their heads covered. Many were crying and yelling into their cellphones, and several people fleeing the scene had blood stains on their clothes.

People collapsed on nearby streets as they tried to flee, and some of those lying on the ground were trampled by others as they ran away.

While hundreds of students sought refuge at nearby Concordia University, others hid for as long as three hours, until police with dogs escorted them out to safety.

Eyewitness Andrew Galle said he emerged from Dawson College's campus radio station to a gruesome scene. "There was glass everywhere, and a big pile of blood, with tracks out the front door and outside the school itself," he said.

Police officers were seen dragging a bloody body out of the school about 45 minutes after the first gunshots were heard. They rested the body next to a patrol car and threw a sheet over the corpse. Police confirmed Wednesday night that the body was that of the gunman.

Officers then searched the school, floor by floor and room by room, amid initial fears that there might have have been a second gunman. The school was declared empty about three hours after the first shots were heard.

The shooting paralyzed Montreal's downtown quarter for most of the afternoon. Nearby office buildings and schools were evacuated, surrounding streets were shut down and Montreal's green subway line, which serves Dawson College, was closed for several hours. Cellphone networks were jammed because of the number of people trying to dial out from the area.

Gunman said he was 'ready for action'

Police searched Gill's car late Wednesday night, and visited his parents' home in Fabreville, a borough in Laval, north of Montreal.

Neighbours told CBC Radio that Gill lived with his parents in the house.

In his profile on vampirefreaks.com, a website devoted to Goth culture, Gill called himself "Trench," and wrote: "You will come to know him as the Angel of Death."

"Work sucks ... School sucks ... Life sucks ... What else can I say?" he wrote. "Metal and Goth kick ass. Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime."

A photo gallery accompanying the profile includes pictures of Gill brandishing a Beretta CX4 Storm semi-automatic rifle. In the last seven photos, he is wearing a black trench coat and holding the rifle. The caption below the last photo reads, "Ready for Action."

School remains closed

Dawson College is closed until at least Monday, director general Robert Filion said, but added that repairs and the investigation could push that date back.

"Our first priority is to set up psychological support when we open," said Filion. "It's not business as usual ... What happened yesterday deserves to be handled with great care and Dawson will do everything it can.

"Something has been broken and we have to work together to build it anew."

About 10,000 students attend the junior college, which offers a two-year pre-university program or a three-year technical program.

Blood reserves down

The province's blood collection agency, Héma Québec, is asking for blood donors in the wake of Wednesday's shootings. The agency wants people with type O-negative blood to donate Thursday, to replenish the province's reserves.

Officials with Héma Québec said they used large quantities of the universal blood type on Wednesday to treat the victims.

Clinics are being held Thursday in Montreal's Place Ville Marie and Place Versailles, as well as at Place Laurier in Quebec City.

With files from the Canadian Press

[Raven]

I'm type o-. I would if there was a way.:-1

[minks]

tmbsgrl wrote: How sad. I have been watching the news on all of this. Must have been so terrifying. I just couldn't imagine.


I was just saying to Raven in a PM, that man wanted to die (the gunman) he was a cowardly glory seeking looser, just like the killers at columbine, and elsewhere.

[Bill Sikes]

minks wrote: Montreal gunman called himself 'angel of death'


Another loony, like that ubggre Hamilton, by the sound, but with a rifle.

[Raven]

And it's no different than a bloody suicide bomber. He went in planning to die.

I cant imagine being of schoolage today. The stress and tension of wondering if some arsehole is going to come in and shoot you.......

The worse I had to worry about was black eyes or getting pregnant.

[minks]

Raven wrote: And it's no different than a bloody suicide bomber. He went in planning to die.

I cant imagine being of schoolage today. The stress and tension of wondering if some arsehole is going to come in and shoot you.......

The worse I had to worry about was black eyes or getting pregnant.


yep somewhere these people are getting the idea that killing is some kind of warped glorious form of recognition. Insane if you ask me

[Lulu2]

"yep somewhere these people are getting the idea that killing is some kind of warped glorious form of recognition. Insane if you ask me"

++++++++++++++ Not such a stretch from that mind-set to sucide bombing, is it?

[Raven]

minks wrote: yep somewhere these people are getting the idea that killing is some kind of warped glorious form of recognition. Insane if you ask me
Yeah, but recognition of what exactly? Why would a kid want to die so badly?

What could cause such a mental delusion of grandeur? Why are kids so fascinated with death?

[minks]

Lulu2 wrote: "yep somewhere these people are getting the idea that killing is some kind of warped glorious form of recognition. Insane if you ask me"

++++++++++++++ Not such a stretch from that mind-set to sucide bombing, is it?


Or killing for their god.

[minks]

Raven wrote: Yeah, but recognition of what exactly? Why would a kid want to die so badly?

What could cause such a mental delusion of grandeur? Why are kids so fascinated with death?


Just recognition, some folks are just that desparate for it. If they can't fit in then they want to stand out HUGELY. Ok kids and death, hmmm going back to my youth and my thoughts and my friends.... what was facinating back then... Charles Manson, we just could not get enough about him and those awful killings. Why well likely cause as humans we are gruesome. And to read about it, it intrigued us. As for actually wanting to kill no we had the ability to turn that off. These days mind you it seems some folks don't have that mechanisim, or they are so down trodden that they don't care, or they are very brain washed into believeing killing is a kind of cleansing. Think KKK, Hitler, and other radical sects that see it as such.

Weapons are more easily attainable these days as well, and so is knowledge, we can turn on the tv, or computer and learn all kinds of things about building bombs, getting guns, how to stalk, kill, etc.

So much influences "killer" wannabes.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by Lulu2

"yep somewhere these people are getting the idea that killing is some kind of warped glorious form of recognition. Insane if you ask me"

++++++++++++++ Not such a stretch from that mind-set to sucide bombing, is it?

minks wrote: Or killing for their god.


...or their country.

[minks]

Bill Sikes wrote: Originally Posted by Lulu2

"yep somewhere these people are getting the idea that killing is some kind of warped glorious form of recognition. Insane if you ask me"

++++++++++++++ Not such a stretch from that mind-set to sucide bombing, is it?



...or their country.


Oooo burn, that can be taken a number of ways now can't it.

Well this guy killed for Infamy (is that the right spelling) anyway I could not find the word yesterday but he wanted to die and be famous for his killings.

He had NO connections to this school, he was a cold blooded killer, the woman he killed... she was shot in the abdomen first as she lay crippled on the school floor he returned to her and her friend, told her friend today he (the killer) was going to die, and he shot the already wounded girl 2 more times killing her.

2 students remain in very critical condition with gun shot wounds to the head, 2 others in criticl condition one in a "deep" coma

This isn't even a killing for a cause... heartless and cowardly, he was shot in the arm by police before turning a gun on his self.

[Raven]

Figured as much. They always kill themselves. It's a miracle noone else has died yet. He wasnt a student there? It just keeps getting worse by the day!

[minks]

Raven wrote: Figured as much. They always kill themselves. It's a miracle noone else has died yet. He wasnt a student there? It just keeps getting worse by the day!


No they say he had no ties to this college.... just wanted to be a famous killer. He has a blog that showed him in some ominous poses with his guns.

[Raven]

He made our papers today too. Sick b'stard!