Police: Montreal Gunman Killed Himself

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

(CBS/AP) 
The last of six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before Gill died at Dawson.

He said on the site that he felt "crazy" and was drinking whiskey that morning and described his mood as "postal" the night before.

"Whiskey in the morning, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, good !! :)," he wrote.

"His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death," Gill wrote at another point on his vampirefreaks.com profile. "He is not a people person. He has met a handful of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, conniving, betraying, lying, deceptive."

This inscription is below a picture of Gill aiming a gun at the camera: "I think I have an obsession with guns ... muahahaha."

"Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a picture of Gill grimacing.

He wrote that he is 6-foot-1, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. It was unclear whether he meant east Indian or American Indian, but Gill is a common name in India.

He said his weakness is laziness and that he fears nothing. Responding to the question, "How do you want to die?" Gill replied "like Romeo and Juliet — or in a hail of gunfire."

Gill repeatedly said on his blogs that he loved black trench coats. He wore a black trench coat during the shooting and opened fire in the cafeteria just as Columbine students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did in 1999.

He also maintained an online blog, similar to Klebold and Harris, devoted to Goth culture, heavy metal music such as Marilyn Manson, guns and journal entries expressing hatred against authority figures and "society."

He said he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre," an Internet-based computer game that simulates the April 20, 1999, shootings at the Colorado high school when Klebold and Harris killed 13 people and then themselves.

Gill complained that a video shooting game, "Postal 2," was too childish. He wanted one that allowed him to kill more and go "beserk."

"I want them to make a game so realistic, that it looks and feels like it's actually happening," he wrote in his blog.

Danny Ledonne, the creator of "Super Columbine Massacre," posted a message of sympathy on his site.

"I am, like most, saddened by the news of the recent shooting at Dawson College. I extend my condolences to those affected by this painful event," Ledonne wrote.

A 23-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl accused in a triple murder in Medicine Hat, Alberta, earlier this year also had profiles on vampirefreaks.com.

Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the lessons learned from other mass shootings had taught police to try to stop such assaults as quickly as possible.

"Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives," he said.

Delorme said some officers were at the school on an unrelated matter when the shooting began and reinforcements were sent in.

Witnesses said Gill started shooting outside the college, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word. Anastasia DeSousa, 18, of Montreal was killed.

Police initially said Gill shot himself but later Wednesday they said they thought officers killed Gill during an exchange of fire. On Thursday, Francois Dore of the Quebec provincial police said "preliminary results of the autopsy showed that he died of self-inflected wounds." Dore said police shot Gill in the arm before he turned his gun on himself.

Canada's worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine, 25, killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989, before shooting himself.

That shooting spurred efforts for new gun laws achieved mainly as the results of efforts by survivors and relatives of Lepine's victims.

Canadian laws prohibit the possession of unregistered handguns, and the rules for ownership of registered guns are stringent. Many politicians and police contend illegal guns flowing across the U.S.-Canada border are behind a recent spike in firearm violence.

[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!