That's neutralized.
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.
So they think there may be more bad guys out there? Wow.
Prayers..
Thanks, fanfan. Dawson was the CEGEP I went to before university. I also lived near the U of M when that shooting happened. Glad I'm in a sunny Ontario burb.
That's neutralized.
From canada.com - 4:05pm ET
TV news clip - more than one gunman - perhaps three; possibly still at large and Westmount Square, a nearby mall; also police inside nearby subway station
video.canada.com
Ahhh..good news! And he seems to be "neutralized"..
Can we just say between 1 and 4 gunmen? That covers most of the reports we're getting.
I guess we're still early enough into this that they're not certain yet...but that's natural enough.
There only was one gunman.
Confirmed by Montreal police.
I think the point is, that is false logic.
Outlawing weapons causes more crime.
If you ban food, people would still need to eat.
If you ban defense, people still need to defend themselves.
If you ban guns, you force the person that will still use them to become an outlaw.
At the moment that the person is faced with a choice, he may decide that since society has already branded him, he might as well use the gun in a criminal manor since using it would be a crime anyway.
Less legal knives only mean more cuts are crimes.
Holy crap! What's up with that pic!?
Dead perp on the ground.
Thank you Allan for that update - "only one gunman."
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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=6b1170e4-090e-4316-b0e3-3ce91b0dc988&k=63588
"Outbreaks of violence at U.S. and Canadian schools"
Canadian Press
Published: Wednesday, September 13, 2006
"(CP) - A list of some major violent incidents at Canadian schools:"
The gunman was white, dressed in a black trenchcoat, with black boots, a Mohawk hairstyle, and lots of facial jewellery.
Could have been a punk Moslem, who knows?
Was that a perp, or a victim?
The covered body by the squad car is the shooter. They are now reporting that his was the only death and that he shot himself.
See post #184.
The only death
so far
(apparently)
is the 'perp' himself.
That would be a very common Canadian Muslim fashion. Post apocalypse punk. Black leather for sure. Seen it a lot up there.
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