Gunman confirmed dead after Montreal rampage

 

Last Updated Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:27:55 EDT

 

 

A gunman who opened fire in a downtown Montreal college Wednesday afternoon is dead "after police intervention," police confirmed at a news conference.

 

Earlier reports had said as many as three shooters walked into Dawson College at 12:41 p.m. ET and began firing at students. Sources told local media outlets that two gunmen were dead.

 

"I cannot confirm there is another suspect at this time," a police spokesman told reporters at about 4:30 p.m. ET.

 

At least 11 people were injured in the shooting rampage that terrorized students and staff at the college, a CEGEP serving about 10,000 students.

 

In a late-afternoon news conference, Montreal General Hospital officials said 11 people had been admitted, eight of them in critical condition. It's not known if injured people were also sent to other hospitals.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/13/shots-dawson.html

:sick: Not another one. :cry:

Thats horrible. I saw this on the news earlier, i was shocked it happened in Canada.

These things happen in Canada too... there was a particularly famous nasty one in Montreal: "The shooting raised chilling memories of Dec. 6, 1989, when 25-year-old Marc Lepine gunned down 14 women at Montreal's École Polytechnique before fatally shooting himself." And there was the one in Alberta right after Columbine.

 

I don't think that there is anywhere totally immune from the possibility of something like this. It still makes me sick to my stomoch, though.

Wonder what the motive is?

Yea, at the polytechnique school in 1989, my mom was studying in the building right next to where the man shot women and she was pregnant with me...

 

But about today, I am so sad. My brother goes to Dawson college, but he's alrigh. But two of my friends both got their friends shot, one of them witnessed her own friend being shot but she's in surgery and looks like she's surviving which is wonderful news. But I'm so sad. I'm so in shock. I start college next year so it's scaring me...

man, that is so insane. i wonder what motivated the guy to do such a heinous thing! i hope everyone is going to be ok :(

http://9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-school-shooting-rampage.html

i just saw that on the news too. horrific stuff. i don't get why these people take revenge on people around them, most unsuspecting, who end up as collateral damage for something they knew nothing about.

it is just upsetting to see this happening. massacres and such are always sad and depressing, this is no exception, geeez!

http://9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-school-shooting-rampage.html

 

WTF? has he failed to notice that America has more gun crime then other western countries?

 

How can people support the right to carry guns?

WTF? has he failed to notice that America has more gun crime then other western countries?

 

How can people support the right to carry guns?

Cos he's quite clearly insane

that guy is insane, people who do that kind of a thing have no emotions or common sense. it pisses me off that people have the nerve to kill someone else just because they feel like it, or seek revenge for something. i heard that people accused videogames as being on of the motives, which is screwed up because that's just a cop out excuse. :veryangry2:

ooh, http://9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com has been taken offline, maybe he was right

I wonder if any of our fellow Canadian boardies attend this college? :(