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Shots fired at Dawson College in Montreal Updated Wed.
CTV ^ | Sep. 13 2006 | CTV.ca News Staff

Posted on 09/13/2006 11:15:00 AM PDT by Barney Gumble

Police have "neutralized" one suspect in a confusing, chaotic shooting scene at a college in downtown Montreal that has left three people in critical condition.

CTV's Jed Kahane, reporting from Montreal, said police received a call about the shooting at just before 1 p.m. ET.

Dawson College is located at the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal.

Students told Kahane they saw someone coming down the hall with a gun.

"They ran back into their classroom and closed the door. The person was apparently chasing someone, and they heard, in her words, at least 20 shots fired, and they stayed inside their classroom until they felt they could get out safely," Kahane told CTV Newsnet.

A number of officers surrounded the school with guns drawn, while others helped to evacuate students who are still hiding inside the English-language CEGEP school which houses about 10,000 students.

One student told radio station 940 News she saw two people who had been shot, including one who had been hit in the neck.

Were you on the scene? Send your images, with descriptive captions, to newsonline@ctv.ca Please include your name and phone number. The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.

"According to the police one suspect has been neutralized, although we don't know what that means," Kahane said.

Images captured from a helicopter hovering over the scene showed hordes of students running frantically from the building.

"Many people are crying as they are coming out, worried about who might still be inside the building and shocked by what happened," said CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin, reporting from the scene.

A number of police vehicles surrounded what appeared to be a bloodsoaked sidewalk outside the school, and several yellow ambulance vehicles were seen speeding from the scene after victims were carried from the building on stretchers and loaded in the vehicles.

All classes at Dawson College have been cancelled.

Today's incident is horrifyingly reminiscent of another school shooting in Montreal. On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine shot 27 female engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique, killing 14, before fatally shooting himself.

The mass murder prompted tighter gun laws, which included the creation of the controversial national firearms registry. It also prompted Parliament to create the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in 1991, to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy.


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KEYWORDS: dawson; lookinbreakingnews; montreal; readmorepostless; shooting
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Shooting in Montreal from Drudge headline. No mention of ethnicity of shooter. Could it be the "M word"? That's the default in my mind now. If I don't hear a mention of ethnicity, then I assume. I have also assumed correctly in all the incidents so far (shooting in Seattle, UNC run over, etc)
1 posted on 09/13/2006 11:15:05 AM PDT by Barney Gumble
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Shooting in Montreal from Drudge headline. No mention of ethnicity of shooter. Could it be the "M word"? That's the default in my mind now. If I don't hear a mention of ethnicity, then I assume. I have also assumed correctly in all the incidents so far (shooting in Seattle, UNC run over, etc)

Ditto..."M" by default until otherwise proven.

2 posted on 09/13/2006 11:17:07 AM PDT by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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Fox saying shooter was in military fatigues.
3 posted on 09/13/2006 11:18:02 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Barney Gumble

Looks like those strict gun-control laws are working out wonderfully...


4 posted on 09/13/2006 11:18:10 AM PDT by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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You mean "Muslim student"?


5 posted on 09/13/2006 11:19:30 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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Were you on the scene? Send your images, with descriptive captions, to newsonline@ctv.ca Please include your name and phone number. The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.



Call me a weenie but if I was on the scene I would have not been calm enough to pull out my cell camara and click a few off.

From the looks on tv off students/people running out of there they aren't waiting around to take pics either.


6 posted on 09/13/2006 11:20:10 AM PDT by Global2010 (My Pumpkin Honey Smoked Salmon is yummy. Pray the Rosary)
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The mass murder prompted tighter gun laws, which included the creation of the controversial national firearms registry. It also prompted Parliament to create the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in 1991, to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy.

Get ready for round two. The bedwetters up there have been hoping for something like this.

7 posted on 09/13/2006 11:20:15 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Nanny Statists are Ameba's.)
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Both Canada and Britian have used one-off shooting to ban firearms across the board. No mention is given to how many people may have died as a result of that ban because they did not have access to a firearm to defend themselves.

It's like the politicans were waiting for a good excuse to ban firearms, not a sensible reaction to a tragedy.

8 posted on 09/13/2006 11:20:36 AM PDT by Barney Gumble (A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
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Those crazy Amish going north?
9 posted on 09/13/2006 11:20:53 AM PDT by b4its2late (I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
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My personal feeling is if we start having a chain reaction of campus shoot outs simutaneously then I would think jihad driven.

One campus only some personal vendictive creep(s).

CNN reporting now 3 armed gunmen and 2 have been shot dead.


10 posted on 09/13/2006 11:24:15 AM PDT by Global2010 (My Pumpkin Honey Smoked Salmon is yummy. Pray the Rosary)
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I live 10 minutes from dawson college. Its a shame that this happened. Prayers for the injured and their families.
About who did this, apparently from what is being said is he was tall, white, wearing black clothes and had a gothic/punk look.


11 posted on 09/13/2006 11:29:36 AM PDT by maronite
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Today's incident is horrifyingly reminiscent of another school shooting in Montreal. On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine shot 27 female engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique, killing 14, before fatally shooting himself.

Was Marc Lepine just an otherwise typical young French Canadian man who developed psychological problems?

No, not at all.

His birth name was Gamal Gharbhi.

His father was Algerian, his mother was a Quebecois named Monique LePine. When his father left his family, he blamed Monique, for being a feminist.

She got custody and legally changed her young son's name to Marc Lepine.

He apparently hated his mother and blamed her for breaking up the family.

He went into a classroom, separated out the women, shouting out how he hated feminists, and murdered 14 women in cold blood.

Some who knew him said that he was showing increasing interest in his father's culture and religion before he went on his suicide mission.

12 posted on 09/13/2006 11:29:38 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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Funny how the people in big cities get away with this sort of thing, while the rest of us rural Canadians don't do this...

I guess it's like when you have too many rats in a cage, eventually they rip each other apart...


13 posted on 09/13/2006 11:29:42 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Barney Gumble

That's not exactly accurate. Firearms are most definately not banned in Canada. They're registered, but not banned. We have 7 million guns in this country.


14 posted on 09/13/2006 11:30:37 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian (Formerly Ashamed Canadian - thank you Stephen Harper!)
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To: maronite

Yup. FNC now reporting "black trenchcoat".


15 posted on 09/13/2006 11:50:26 AM PDT by Musket
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To: TampaDude

Probably that "F" word, French Canadian.


16 posted on 09/13/2006 11:51:50 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: MD_Willington_1976

Actually, there was a fairly famous study of the effects of over-crowding on rats. As the population density increased, normal rats changed quite a bit: they became homosexual, they ate their young, etc. Sound familiar.....?


17 posted on 09/13/2006 11:54:55 AM PDT by expatpat
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The bedwetters up there have been hoping for something like this.

What next - ban fatigues? Ban cafeterias? Better yet - let's ban groups of people larger than three from gathering anywhere within a thousand meters of each other.

18 posted on 09/13/2006 12:02:50 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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To: wideawake

The mother was a former nun.

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/spree-killers/marc-lepine/


19 posted on 09/13/2006 12:03:42 PM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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Today's shooting at Dawson College in Montreal, is a form of TERRORISM, what kind is yet to be determined.
20 posted on 09/13/2006 12:06:53 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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