Post by DakuSingh on Sept 14, 2006 14:10:11 GMT
MONTREAL, Sept. 14 -- The gunman who opened fire at a downtown college here, killing one and wounding 19, was a 25-year-old man obsessed with guns, goth culture, and violence, who proclaimed that "I hate the world," according to Canadian media reports.
The man was identified by a police source and media reports as Kimveer Gill, who lives with his mother in Laval, north of Montreal.
Police did not officially identify the shooter but they said Gill's automobile was left yesterday after the lunchtime mayhem at the downtown campus of Dawson College, a college preparatory school with about 10,000 full- and part-time students here. Police said they were awaiting autopsy results to confirm the gunman's identity.
One student, Anastacia DeSousa, 18, was killed. Hospital officials said Thursday that eight persons remain in intensive care, two of them in "extremely critical condition."
The gunman, wearing a black trenchcoat and boots, was killed after police, responding quickly to reports of the shooting, opened fire on him in the cafeteria. He was reportedly carrying a pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and an automatic weapon.
On a Web site filled with obscenities and hatred for authority, Gill posted a log and about 50 pictures of himself, many of them posing with a semi-automatic rifle and wearing a long black trenchcoat and boots.
In rambling and angry blog entries, using the identification fatality666, Gill raved about video games involving shooting, and said "I love guns. . . . I really do. The great equalizer. . . . wouldn't you say?"
His log entries often evoked scenes of random shootings. In one, predictive of the drizzly weather Wednesday when the shootings occurred, he wrote, "The disgusting human creatures scream in panic and run in all directions, taking with them the lies and deceptions. The Death Night gazes at the humans with an empty stare, as they knock each other down in a mad dash to safety. He wishes to slaughter them as they flee. . . ."
In another, he acknowledged, "Usually I have dreams about people being murdered, hung, getting shot, and stuff like that."
Police did not identify the victims Wednesday, and it remained unclear whether police killed the gunman or he killed himself. Witnesses said he had a Mohawk haircut. Some said he was in dressed in "Goth-type" fashion and his skin was pierced with by jewelry.
"I thought it was fireworks. And then the man came in the cafeteria. He pulled something out from under his coat, and it was a rifle," said a 19-year-old student waiting Wednesday evening outside a hospital in Montreal where eightpeople remained in critical condition.
"I looked at him for two or three seconds. Then I saw a policeman with a gun coming afterwards. There was a student sitting right in front of the gunman, and he shot him. After that, we all ran toward a vending area where he couldn't see us." As he huddled there with others and shots reverberated through the building, "I was praying they killed him. Everyone was praying," he said. "I just feel so relieved I escaped."
"Rock and Roll baby!" reads the caption below another photo, tongue outstretched, holding up a black semi-automatic weapon with one hand and making the sign of the devil with another.
"I think I have an obbsetion (sic) 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 head shot of Gill grimacing.
The site also has lengthly lists of likes and dislikes. On the "likes" list are: first-person-shooter video games, "Super Psycho Maniacs roaming the streets freely," massacres, trenchcoats, destruction and "crushing my enemies skulls."
He also shows a penchant for semi-automatic handguns, combat shotguns, sawed-off shotguns, assault rifles and myriad other weapons.
He dislikes: "The world and everything in it."
Kimveer Gill punjabi man who shot and killed down students, if thier wasnt enough hatred against punajbi's since 9/11 this just adds more fuel to the fire.
