Posted on 09/13/2006 10:42:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Edited on 09/13/2006 2:49:00 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
MONTREAL A gunman in a black trench coat and sporting a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a Montreal college and wounded at least 20 people _ six critically _ before he apparently was killed by police, witnesses and authorities said.
Scores of panicked students at Dawson College near downtown fled into the surrounding streets after the shooting broke out at the school of about 10,000. Some had clothes stained with blood.
Police spokesman Ean Lafreniere said there was just one gunman at the school and the search for any others was over.
Although police initially suggested the gunman had killed himself, Police Director Yvan DeLorme later said at a news conference that "based on current information, the suspect was killed by police."
CBC-TV showed police with guns drawn standing behind a police cruiser as a SWAT team swarmed the 12-acre campus. A bloody body covered in a yellow sheet lay next to a police cruiser near an entrance to a school building.
Montreal General Hospital said 11 people were admitted, including six who were in critical condition. The other nine were taken to two other hospitals.
Witnesses said a man wearing a black trench coat entered the school cafeteria and opened fire wordlessly.
Derick Osei, 19, said he was walking down the stairs to the second- floor cafeteria when he saw a man with a gun.
"He ... just started shooting up the place. I ran up to the third floor and I looked down and he was still shooting," Osei said. "He was hiding behind the vending machines and he came out with a gun and started pointing and pointed at me. So I ran up the stairs. I saw a girl get shot in the leg."
Osei said people in the cafeteria were all lying on the floor.
"I saw the gunman who was dressed in black and at that time he was shooting at people," student Michel Boyer told CTV. "I immediately hit the floor. It was probably one of the most frightening moments of my life."
"He was shooting randomly, I didn't know what he was shooting at, but everyone was screaming get out of the building," Boyer said. "Everybody was in tears. Everybody was so worried for their own safety for their own lives."
Raamias Hernandez, 19, said he had just finished his class when he saw everybody starting to run.
He said the gunman was dressed in a black jacket and had a mohawk haircut. Hernandez said he started to take pictures on a camera cell phone with his friend and the suspect saw them and started shooting.
Student Devansh Smri Vastava said he saw a man in military fatigues with "a big rifle" storm the cafeteria.
"He just started shooting at people," Vastava said, adding that he heard about 20 shots fired. He also said teachers ran through the halls telling students to get out.
"We all ran upstairs. There were cops firing. It was so crazy," Vastava said. "I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care, he was just shooting at everybody. I just got out."
A SWAT team and canine units were dispatched to the school, going floor by floor to look for victims, Sgt. Giuseppe Boccardi told CNN.
People also were evacuated from two nearby shopping centers.
Canada's worst mass shooting also happened in Montreal. Gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989, before shooting himself.
The 25-year-old Lepine roamed the halls of the school firing a rifle, specifically targeting women whom he claimed in a suicide note had ruined his life. Nine other women and four men were wounded.
That shooting spurred efforts for tighter gun laws and greater awareness of societal violence _ particularly domestic abuse. Canada's tighter gun law was achieved mainly as the results of efforts by survivors and relatives of the victims.
Another shooting in Montreal occurred in 1992, when a Concordia University professor killed four colleagues.
Dawson College was the first English-language institution in Quebec's network of university preparatory colleges when it was founded in It is the largest college of general and vocational education, known by its French acronym CEGEP, in the province.
Face of a killer
His name is Trench. You will come to know him as the Angel of Death . He is male. He is 25 years of age. He lives in Quebec. He finds that it is an O.K place to live. He is not a people person. He has met a handfull of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, kniving, betraying, lieing, deceptive, motherf*ckers. Work sucks..........School sucks..........Life sucks..........What else can I say Metal and Goth kick ass Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime.
I take it this is the gunman, BurbankKarl?
here is his gallery....
http://vampirefreaks.com/gallery.php?u=fatality666
very Matrix if you ask me!
Thank you BurbankKarl.
Naturally, the actors with preset agendas are the first to show up- after Columbine, some here called it "Blood Dancing," and it's an accurate description.
More's the pity- this is not a Hardware Problem ( weaponry ) but a Software ( malicious people ) Problem.
Cars kill and maim far more people, every single day of the year, and swimming pools kill more children- guns are just a convienient boogy man for those who would rather not face the insoluable problem that there are bad, sick, or twisted people out in the world.
After the Seattle Shooting here, one of the women who survived started a crusade for yet more failed gun control- and it has been pointed out ( "dial 9-11 and die" ) that if she had pulled a sidearm out of her purse instead of a cell phone, the friend she lost might still be alive today-- some people simply refuse to learn from life's hard lessons. The world is not, never has been, and never will be, a "safe" place... you'd better be ready for it to turn ugly in an instant.
Related link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701190/posts
"Montreal Shooters web page(my title)"
9/14/06 | me
Posted on 09/13/2006 11:59:51 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
http://vampirefreaks.com/gallery.php?u=fatality666
"I don't get no respect."
Poor guy.
This just in from Free Dominion:
http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=66373&start=195
"Wlyonmackenzie wrote:
The registry was sold in parliament as a cure for violent gun crime and to particularly stop mass shootings like the one which spawed the bill.....I was there in the house when we heard Rock spew this gibberish to the parliamentary justice committee......in the same session he said it would cost 2 million which would be recovered by fees...
So even though we knew he was lying through his teeth it took 10 years for the public and press to realize the registry has not solved a single crime nor prevented one..."
I know.
The SIG 550 is probably the best conventional assault rifle out there, and Canadians can get them (they're rare as hen's teeth in the US). But, when you hold one with a dinky 5rnd mag, it takes the fun away.
If only we could chip away at the "sporting purposes" interpretations.
Good work, Karl.
No, my post wasn't directed at you.
Actually, you are one of the brighter and saner lights on this MB.
I just find it increasingly depressing that every event elicits the same set of responses from both sides. If you're a conservative, it's the fault of Liberalism, socialist programs, Muslim Fascist loving dope smoking godless abortionists and the Liberals will blame war mongering, tax cutting, gun loving, whacko religious nuts. No one needs to accept responsibility or accountability for anything that goes wrong anymore because the blame is predictably prepackaged for each side.
The bad guys will win in the end, cause we're all fighting a low grade civil war in our countries (left vs right).
We may think that we're always right because we're Right, but in the end we'll be wrong because the western democracies will not survive if it remains divided.
I find reading posts on this MB increasing depressing as there seems to be no thought given to the contents of posts concerning the events of the day, just the usual blame whatever is wrong on Liberals, social programs, etc, etc.
Yah, I guess that's it. /sarc
Until governments stop restricting their populations natural Right to self defense, look for stuff like this to continue.
Government is literally part of the problem on this one. It was the goblin at fault, but he only got his opportunity due to left-wing PC non-sense and the socialistic demonization of firearms.
You speak for me on this, Joe.
You got that right Joe. Thanks for the ping.
Snip:
Canada's worst mass shooting also happened in Montreal. Gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989, before shooting himself.
Snip:
That shooting spurred efforts for tighter gun laws and greater awareness of societal violence _ particularly domestic abuse. Canada's tighter gun law was achieved mainly as the results of efforts by survivors and relatives of the victims.
Looks like those tighter gun laws really worked, huh?
And if you weren't shot by responding police officers, you would have been arrested and prosecuted for unlawful carry of a firearm, and expelled from college for violation of the code of conduct.
Lovely situation there in Canada, isn't it?
...apparently there were TWO people shooting. I wonder if they were Muslims Methodists?
fixed it for ya...
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