College gunman 'hated people'
2006-09-14 16:20
Montreal - A lone gunman who went on a
shooting spree at a Montreal college in which one woman died
and 19 people were injured, referred to himself as the "angel
of death", according to his online journal.
Police confirmed on Thursday that the gunman, who died at
the scene after a shootout with police during the Wednesday
afternoon incident, was Kimveer Gill, a 25-year-old male from a
Montreal suburb.
On a website devoted to Goth culture, Gill said his credo
was: "Live fast, die young and leave a mutilated corpse."
Calling himself "Trench", he also wrote on the site
www.vampirefreaks.com that he loved guns and hated people.
Eyewitnesses at the shooting scene in downtown Montreal
said the gunman wore a black trenchcoat and boots and his hair
was cut in the punk Mohawk style, close-cropped on the sides.
Six in critical condition
Montreal health officials said that among the 19 people
hurt, six were in critical condition from gunshot wounds
including two who were in danger for their lives.
The shooting took place in and around Dawson College, an
English-language school with about 10 000 students between the
ages of 16 and 19 in the heart of Montreal, Canada's second
biggest city.
On his English blog, Gill posted several photographs
showing him brandishing guns and a hunting knife, his black
hair shorn in a Mohawk cut.
One photo showing the tall, thin man dressed in a black
trenchcoat and holding an automatic gun carries the caption:
"Ready for Action."
"Anger and hatred simmers within me," reads another photo
caption.
Another photo shows him holding a black automatic weapon he
describes as a CX4 Storm semi-automatic carbine.
In another, he
brandishes an automatic weapon, admitting: "I think I have an
obsession with guns."