The Canadian "Columbine"

[JDH]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/13/montreal.shooting/index.html

25 year old male, mohawk, black trenchcoat, black military boots, big ass machine gun.. 1 dead, 8 critical, 10 others wounded.

Says the police got him 4 minutes into the attack, noticed the mayhem on the way to an unrelated call.. in a college with 10,000 students it coulda been a helluva lot worse had the shooter had more time.

 

[pan7eraboyca]

Update. Sad day.

Gunman, woman die in shooting rampage at Montreal college


MONTREAL (CP) - A trenchcoat-clad shooter with a scowl and a Mohawk haircut turned a college cafeteria into a combat zone with a commando-style assault that left him and a young woman dead Wednesday.
Carrying an automatic rifle, two other guns, and dressed head to toe in black, the man stormed into the sprawling downtown Dawson College and began coldly cutting down students.

Another 19 people were injured while hundreds of screaming and sobbing students spilled out onto the city streets in the shadow of the fabled Montreal Forum hockey arena.

At least eight were listed in critical condition. Police said the woman who was killed was 20.

Inside, the cafeteria was transformed for 15 minutes into a shooting gallery in a scene eerily reminiscent of the city's 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre in which 14 women were killed.

The gunman took cover behind a row of vending machines and exchanged gunfire with police while petrified students dropped to the floor in an effort to elude the barrage of bullets.

Surrounded by police, he repeatedly barked a single order each time the officers inched toward him: "Get back! Get back!"

The exchange ended with the attacker slumped on the floor, collapsed in a hail of gunfire.

Police Chief Yvan Delorme confirmed that officers killed the gunman, who was described by provincial police as a 25-year-old from the Montreal region.

Delorme said the attacker sprayed gunfire at random targets. He said provincial police had been called in to investigate, which is customary in a killing involving the local force.

"The only thing I can say is that he was a young man of Canadian origin," Delorme said.

He said police were able to respond quickly because two officers were already at the college on a drug-related matter when they heard gunshots and took action right away.

Delorme said the lessons learned from the Montreal Massacre about the need to co-ordinate emergency services and act promptly helped save lives.

"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 (today)."

The gunman stormed into the school over the lunch hour, with a scowl on his face and an automatic weapon in his hands.

"He looked really mad," said Mathieu Dominique, 17, who was having a cigarette by the door when the shooter burst in less than three metres away from him.

"He was really into (the) shooting. . . He looked like he really wanted to kill people. . . . It was like, bullet after bullet. It was like a burst - like at least six shots in two seconds."

Another student, Soher Marous, said the gunman said nothing when he entered the college.

"He had a stone-cold face, there was nothing on his face." Marous said. "He didn't yell out any slogans or anything. He just started opening fire. He was a cold-blooded killer."

The gunman continued firing away as he approached the cafeteria. Andrea Barone was sitting there after lunch with his girlfriend when he heard shots ring out.

"At first I thought it was a firecracker," said Barone, 17. "Then I turned around and I saw him. He was dressed in a black trenchcoat and I saw his hand firing a handgun in every direction."

Barone said all the students hit the floor to take cover.

A police officer emerged within seconds from a corner next to the cafeteria and fired on the gunman, he said. The shot missed.

A few more police officers showed up, taking cover behind a wall beside the cafeteria. The gunman was surrounded with his back to the vending machines.

Many students, meanwhile, were trapped in the line of fire.

Barone said it was like a running battle with five or six shots fired in both directions every minute but he said the officers were hesitant to move in because of the students.

Another witness said students began snapping photos and capturing videos from their cell- phone cameras as they watched the scene from a third-floor balcony. That's when the gunman put a scare into them.

"The shooter sees us - and he shoots upwards," said Gianni Petrella, 17. "He shoots the ceiling and you could feel little pieces of cement falling down. Dust."

Within minutes, the attacker was hit during a barrage of at least six shots fired into the cafeteria, Barone said. Police then helped the students leave the area, crawling out on their bellies along a wall.

Barone said as they were crawling out toward an exit they saw a girl who had been shot in the torso and who was face down in a pool of blood.

He said officers told them: 'Don't look, don't look. Keep going out.' Montreal police said one young woman died but gave no details.

Police at one point warned students to lie on the ground again amid fears there could be another gunman. Although early reports suggested there could have been several suspects, police said there was only one.

"For now, I am limiting it to one suspect who died after a police intervention on site," Delorme told a news conference.

Delorme did not give details of the gunfire exchange between police and the suspect.

Ambulance and hospital officials said the shooting victims included men and women.

Delorme dismissed suggestions that race or terrorism played a role. "There's no information that leads us to believe that it's something other than what happened at the scene."

The streets around the school filled with hysterical students in the minutes and hours after the shooting.

Devansh Shri Vastava said he was in the cafeteria when a man dressed in black combat clothing stormed in and began shooting at people.

"He had a laser gun or something, a big rifle, and he just started shooting at people," he said. "We all ran upstairs. There were cops firing. It was so crazy. I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care, he was just shooting at everybody. I just got out."

Derick Osei, 19, said he also saw the gunman.

"I just got out of class and I was walking down the stairs," Osei said. "He had one of them SWAT army guns and just started shooting up the place. I ran up to the third floor and I looked down and he was still shooting. He was hiding behind the vending machines and he came out with a gun."

Osei said he saw a girl shot in the leg before he ran upstairs to escape.

"At first he was shooting around the caf and he looked up and saw there were people on the third floor and he started aiming for the third floor. I thought 'I am not trying to get shot' so I got out."

The shootings recalled Marc Lepine's murderous rampage at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique school on Dec. 6, 1989, when he opened fire and ended up killing 14 women.

Another shooting in Montreal occurred in Montreal in 1992 when Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues.

Ann Lynch, chief of clinical operations at Montreal General Hospital, said 11 patients were brought in, eight in critical condition. Less critically wounded were taken to three other area hospitals as well.

"The nature of the injuries are all gunshot wounds to the abdomen, to the chest, one head injury and also several to the limbs, peripheral limbs, arms and legs," she said.

"At this point we are certainly watching all the patients extremely carefully and certainly the team will be doing its utmost for each and every one of those patients."

Lynch said the emergency room was a steady stream of red-eyed students looking for information about friends.

The hospital had a team of social workers providing support to family members.

In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the shootings a "cowardly and senseless act."

"Our primary concern right now is to ensure the safety and recovery of all those who were injured during this tragedy," Harper said in a statement.

"On behalf of the government of Canada and all Canadians, our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and their loved ones, and to the students and staff of the college who are all victims of this terrible tragedy."

The shootings disrupted traffic in and around the area and also led to the closure of several subway stations for several hours.

Dawson is a junior college which is attended by students after Grade 11 because there is no Grade 12 in Quebec. The institution is home to about 7,000 students who are usually enrolled in a two-year pre-university program or a three-year technical program.

In Montreal, Premier Jean Charest called it a sad day.

"Today there wasn't a Quebecer who didn't stop what they were doing to find out what was happening at Dawson College," he said after arriving from Quebec City. "Our life was literally stopped today."

School officials said the college will remain closed until Monday.



© The Canadian Press, 2006

 

[ford_racer]

Damn that sucks. Reminds me of earlier this year when that kid shot himself at my school. That was scary, I can't imagine an actual school shooting.

Peace be with the student who died's family. Hopefully the 8 critical survive their wounds.

 

[Wintermute]

I'm glad they killed the bastard. WTF is wrong with people, if your life sucks that bad, go in a corner and end it yourself.

 

[DaleM]

Bush and rap music, need I say more?

 

[YoungJim]

+1 to what the hell is wrong with people...

 

[Lightning Steve]

Ya I guess our 1 billion dollar gun registry didn't work.
This guy sounds like as much of a nut job as Mark Lepine (or how ever it's spelled).
Why do these jack offs always have to go after innocent people. School hasn't even been in long enough for anyone to do him wrong (in his mind).
Why schools anyway?

 

[JDH]

UPDATE!

They released his name, I already can't remember it.. they showed links to his profile on vampirefreaks.com.. said he loves guns, hates people, authority.
They showed his tombstone at his gravesite he purchased already, engraved with "Live Fast, Die Young.. Leave a Mangled Corpse".

Sick, sick people..

 

[HISSMAN]

That sure does make Michael Moore look even more like an assbag. I do recall that in Bowling for Columbine he took a little trip to Canada and was making a huge point that stuff like that would not happen there, and it was the society of the US, and the conservative Right that lead to the Columbine massacre. LOL on More.

-Jeff

 

[Mr. Mach-ete]

Man I really hope there's a Hell for that bastards soul to go.

 

[YellowGT1]

This is the Columbine vid that shows just how messed up some kids are now a days.

http://www.yikers.com/video_footage_from_columbine_movie_-_zero_day.html

I hope they spend their entire afterlife burning in hell.

 

[D's01Snake]

This is the Columbine vid that shows just how messed up some kids are now a days.

http://www.yikers.com/video_footage_from_columbine_movie_-_zero_day.html

I hope they spend their entire afterlife burning in hell.

jesus!

 

[CobraBob]

Very sad and disturbing.

There are a lot of people in this country who hate society and life in general. And IMO in the culture we live in today (in the US) they're just as much a threat to us as terrorists. Someone with that much hate and no fear of dying is no different or no less dangerous than an Islamic extremist. JMO.

 

[Phat_Albert]

That vid is messed up dude.

 

[Y2KSVT]

Why schools anyway?

Because people who do this type of things are typically cowards. The type of people who talk a bunch of trash over the internet, because they can hide behind a computer. Finally, one of those types lashes out, and takes it out on innocent people that pose no threat. In other words, they're pussies.

Mark

 

[YellowGT1]

Because people who do this type of things are typically cowards. The type of people who talk a bunch of trash over the internet, because they can hide behind a computer. Finally, one of those types lashes out, and takes it out on innocent people that pose no threat. In other words, they're pussies.

Mark

I agree with that..

 

[T-Bolt]

Sad to hear, but glad he got taken down so quickly.

 

[bb83]

This is the Columbine vid that shows just how messed up some kids are now a days.

http://www.yikers.com/video_footage_from_columbine_movie_-_zero_day.html

I hope they spend their entire afterlife burning in hell.

I wish those messed up kids were still alive so that they could be tortured so badly the rest of their life so they wish they were dead.

 

[blwn306]

there burning in hell so they got what they had coming to them...

stupid training..we had in school..why would you run under the tables???..

 

[ford_racer]

Here's his blog thing:

http://vampirefreaks.com/journal.php?pg=1&u=fatality666

Look at the comments under this picture:

http://vampirefreaks.com/picview.ph...Rock+and+Roll+Baby&c=49&x=55&d=&g=1&s=0&fid=0


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