Police: Montreal Gunman Killed Himself

Shooter Said He Wanted To Die In 'Hail Of Gunfire' On Blog

(CBS/AP)  Police in Montreal now say Kimveer Gill, the man who went on a deadly shooting rampage yesterday, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Initial reports had said that the 25-year-old had committed suicide, but police yesterday said they had shot and killed him. It turns out police only wounded him in the arm.

The incident at Dawson College in downtown Montreal left one 18-year-old woman dead and wounded 19 others. Four remain in critical condition.

Gill had posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling "crazy" and "postal" and was drinking whiskey hours before the attack.

The man also said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die "in a hail of gunfire."

In the end, Gill — dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters — put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College on Wednesday, police said.

By that time, he had already wounded 20 other people — one of whom, an 18-year-old woman, later died. Four shooting victims remained in critical condition Thursday, including three in extremely critical condition and one in a deep coma.

"Shaky. Everyone's shaky," student Marianna Rekkab, who knows some of the victims, told CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston Thursday morning.

The Internet postings and a neighbor's description reveal an angry, solitary young man who lived with his mother, sported a mohawk, dressed in black and was filled with hatred for everyone from jocks to preppies and everything from country music to hip-hop. He once worked for a carpet company and more recently an auto parts business.

"Work sucks ... school sucks ... life sucks ... what else can I say? ... Life is a video game you've got to die sometime," he wrote in his profile for a Web site called vampirefreaks.com.

Authorities searched Gill's home Wednesday evening and seized his computer and other belongings.

"I don't know what they found in the computer," said a woman who answered the phone at Gill's home and said she was his mother. "They took everything."

She described her son as "a good man."

"Just ask anybody. Ask the neighbors. He was a good son," the woman told The Associated Press. She refused to give her name.

A neighbor across the street said he was a loner.

"There were never any friends," Louise Leykauf said. "He kept to himself. He always wore dark clothing."

Another neighbor, Mariola Trutschnigg, said she noticed a changed in his appearance in recent months when he "started wearing a mohawk and black clothes."

In postings on vampirefreaks.com, blogs in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle or a knife and wearing a black trench coat and combat boots.

One photo has a tombstone bearing his name and the epitaph: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."

[moesuggs]

The Montreal gunman did himself a favor, and everyone also, it's too bad he didn't do himself first.

[gmond]

Well, one less disgruntled person to worry about, it is unfortunate that he had to destroy others' lives before destroying his own.
Hey kids, this is not the way to gain recognition or make up for injustices, real or imagined. In a very short time, nobody will remember Gill's name or his face, only what he did.
I pity his relatives and friends, they had to put up with him. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[tomflint69]

I agree with all friends here.
I feel sorry for all those families who have suffered from this incident. In fact I am too!
I think that this is the responsibility of parents to handle their children and tell them what is right what is wrong(specially when they are teens). With time parents, are getting busy in their lives with no time left for their children. In my opinion the open blog system is also not very positive for people. If it has to remain, at least free blogging culture should be closed. Blog is an open invitation to any people who may have violent thinking. There should be restrictions by the I.T companies to make blogs only on specific usefull issues, not like that man was running. Any posts made on the blogs should be automatically filtered and this not a very expensive or difficult task.

[bennylaval]

The radical-fanatical irrationalism-anti-rationalism of the red reactionary luny left maintains that any and all security concerns and measures are paranoia and that guns cause crime, that they can be used only by criminals, and that they are the most dangerous weapons. So they conveniently forget that the police have guns, that most gun-owners are more law-abiding and more in favour of law and order and more against anti-social behaviour than other people, that most guns are used ligitimately, that no guns were used in the Oklahoma City bombing nor in 9/11 and the 2 nut jobs at Columbine planned to massacre 600 people using bombs, and that guns are essential in maintaing public safety. It was guns that prevented more people from being killed and injured at the Dawson shooting. Also, most loners are more law-abiding and in favour of law and order and against anti-social behavoiur than most people and most anti-socials aren't loners.

[redhotkitty-2009]

First let me say - Dawson_Girl - I'm grateful you made it out alive, and uninjured (at least phsyiscally).

Also - wizardeen - excellent point.

What it comes down to is a lack of respect for one another. We're all different, w/different ideas, likings, etc....being different doesn't make us better than those who don't fit in, or for that matter, those who do fit in...

Goldfish has a point - responsibility lies w/everyone, not just 'them'.

[witzlaw]

Obviously the magnatude of the tradegy has to be kept in mind, and my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families. But to a lesser extent, I wonder how we as a society will cope or react to events like this. Specifically, how will we act towards those who seem eccentric, different, introverted, or any combination of these things?

More to the point: Will we be tempted, in the aftermath of Wednesday's events--coupled with those of Columbine--to treat anyone who is out of the ordinary, who does not fit into the mainstream of high-school, college, or young adult life, and who isn't generally around other peers, as being potential mass-murderers?

We need to learn whatever lessons need to be learned from both incidents, but we also need to proceed carefully and cautiously, lest the above fears be realized.

[redhotkitty-2009]

Um, does he have 6 fingers? I'm counting 6 fingers. Let's blame his mother...after all, that's what we do..blame others for our own psychoticness?

Yep - that was it - his mom gave birth to a 6 fingered right handed child, he probably got bullied because of it, therefore, decided to show them who was boss.

Nice going mom!

[duffyn]

Dawson_Girl - so glad you are safe. Boy if ever I hear gunfire I will no longer assume it is a joke! Another mis-wired human and I agree, nationality means nothing here. By DNA, we're all 99 percent the same. A real tragedy.

[tomflint69]

G0LDFISH, I agree, but I am not talking about nationality but "origin". Why only in some cases do we shout at terrorists who are our nationals but have their ties back to other countries? in case of Muslim countries I believe we forget everything and start crying on media e.g. Those who carried out attacks in U.K and those who were plotting terror there, were British nationals, but who suffered the most in English society??? the Muslims and the Pakistani community. Did we put aside their origin in that case? never!
We should be with justice. So I repeat my message:
Really its interesting that no one is talking about his origin! Gill is a cast found in india. Hindus and Sikhs have this cast.
For a moment, suppose he was a Muslim then what would be the reaction in the Western media after knowing that? people would say stop allowing Muslims study in Canadian/Western colleges!
no one is saying about his origin because he is not a Muslim! or shall we wait to know further details????

[g0ldfish-2009]

Nationality doesn't make any difference whatsoever. People are people, it's a question of circumstances. The boy's life is uknown to us, and the only difference between a criminal and a non-criminal is that a criminal carries out his wants out whereas others control them. I think we should really take the responsibility on us and take care of the people that are around us instead of blaming everything on them. Why else would the lad hate the world so much that he was willing to do this?

[tomflint69]

Really its interesting that no one is talking about his origin! Gill is a cast found in india. Hindus and Sikhs have this cast.
For a moment, suppose he was a Muslim then what would be the reaction in the Western media after knowing that? people would say stop allowing Muslims study in Canadian/Western colleges!
no one is saying about his origin because he is not a Muslim! or shall we wait to know further details????

[wizardeen]

"Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack." !!!
If this is not terrorism ,, to open fire and shot civilians just for fun ,, what terrorism would be ?? Should he be a muslim and having the name of Ahmed or Muhamed to be a terrorist ?

[dawson_girl]

I go to dawson college and i was there on that day. I can honestly say thath it was the most terrifying moment of my life!!! You never think that this can happen to you but when it does annd you can think about is running. I was going to my locker when i heard 3 gun shots. I thought it was a joke so by the time i got to atrium i saw everyone under tables and people crying. i looked around and heard 4 more gun shots which is when i then heard "get the *** out of here" and ran back up the stairs called my dad and told him i was scred. My dad then heard guns shots and me screaming. I then was pushed and started running towards the door. I made it out safe and ran to find my boyfirned and find family and friends. I will never forget that day!