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Harper sticks to plans to scrap gun registry Agency didn't prevent tragedy: PM Effective policies needed, he says Toronto red Star Sep. 16, 2006. 01:00 AM TONDA MACCHARLES OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA—The government will press ahead with plans to scrap the gun registry as promised, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has indicated in a radio interview to be broadcast today. "The unfortunate reality" is the federal gun registry failed to prevent the tragedy at Dawson College, Harper told CBC Radio's The House. Harper first stressed it is important to have "all the facts" before deciding any public policy response. He said...

Police told them of shooting spree 10 hours later Son learned about guns during stint with army: MotherLAVAL, QUE. On Wednesday, Kimveer Gill's parents were watching television, glued to the coverage of the carnage at Dawson College. By that time, their son had killed Anastasia De Sousa and wounded about 20 other people before turning his gun on himself. But his parents had no inkling of his involvement until the police arrived at their bungalow in Laval at 11:30 p.m., more than 10 hours after the shooting spree. Their son a killer? They were blown away, crushed. "My husband cried...

Gunman and young woman die in Mtl. shooting spreeCTV.ca News Staff September 14, 2006 The man who opened fire at a Montreal college on Wednesday, killing one and leaving 19 wounded before being shot dead by police, has been identified. Montreal's La Presse newspaper identified the trenchcoat-clad man as 25-year-old Kimveer Gill, of Laval. Police have not confirmed the man's identity. The shooter had a Mohawk haircut and wore head-to-toe black clothing when he stormed into the cafeteria of Dawson College in the city's downtown just before 1 p.m. ET Wednesday shooting 20 students. One of the victims died in...

Web diary on Goths website, photos show insight The last online posting by Kimveer Gill on a website that is a popular gathering place for Goths is eerily time-stamped 10:41 a.m. yesterday — about two hours before Gill was shot dead by Montreal police officers at Dawson College. In it, Gill describes little of how the events of the day are going to unfold — instead focusing on how whiskey tastes so good in the morning. There's a throwaway footnote that when he calls people "niggahs" in my journals ... it doesn't have to do anything with their skin colour....

<p>MONTREAL (CP) - Students at a Montreal college say they have heard several shots in the building and that four people have been shot.</p> <p>One student at Dawson College said she saw two people who had been shot, including one who had been hit in the neck. The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.</p>