Montreal Gunman Called Himself 'angel Of Death'

Montreal gunman called himself 'angel of death'

Last Updated: Thursday, September 14, 2006 | 1:34 PM ET

 

Kimveer Gill referred to himself as the 'angel of death' in an online diary. (Canadian Press)

 

Officers pulled the gunman's lifeless body out of Dawson College as students fled the building Wednesday.

(Peter McCabe/Canadian Press)

 

The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a Montreal college Wednesday apparently left an online journal with chilling comments and photos of himself brandishing a rifle.

 

Kimveer Gill was the author of an online diary posted at the website vampirefreaks.com.

 

Gill, 25, was dressed entirely in black, wearing a trench coat and armed with a rifle when he arrived at Dawson College on Wednesday afternoon.

 

One woman was shot to death and 19 people were injured, at least six of them critically, in the rampage that followed. Montreal police said the victims ranged in age from 17 to 48.

 

On Thursday, police identified the dead student as Anastasia DeSousa, an 18-year-old from the greater Montreal area, who was a business student at Dawson College.

 

 

DeSousa was shot dead inside the building, said Montreal's ambulance agency.

 

"The environment was still very hostile when we got there," said André Champagne, a spokesman for Urgences Santé.

 

Paramedics realized very quickly that there was nothing they could do to resuscitate or revive the young woman. "Her wounds were fatal, and the death was declared on site," he said.

 

DeSousa's body was removed from the college early Thursday morning.

 

Chaos on campus

 

Investigators with the Montreal police major crimes unit and the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police force, spent the night picking through the crime scene to collect forensic evidence.

 

Eyewitnesses say they saw a tall, Goth-looking man in a long black coat drive up near the college on Maisonneuve Street in a black Pontiac Sunfire at around 12:30 p.m. He got out of his car, opened the trunk and removed a rifle.

 

The gunman then walked toward the college's southwest entrance. Witnesses said they saw him shoot at least one person outside before entering the building. Police said the first gunshots were heard at 12:41 p.m.

 

It was lunchtime and the school was packed when the gunman entered through the main doors and headed to the cafeteria. "He was shooting randomly," said Dawson student Michel Boyer, who witnessed the gunfire. "I'm not sure who he was shooting at, but the [cafeteria] atrium was completely cleared."

 

Chaos ensued, said Boyer. "The adrenaline was rushing. It was like something from a movie. It was completely unbelievable and incredible."

 

The first police officers were on the scene within three minutes, said Montreal police chief Yvan Delorme. By coincidence, they had been called to the college on an unrelated drug investigation.

 

Officers with guns drawn rushed into the building, at which point witnesses reported hearing more shots fired. Montreal police confirmed that the officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect, and that the suspect was hit by at least one officer.

 

Police said the gunman died during the shootout. Preliminary autopsy results released Thursday showed Gill died of a self-inflicted wound, Quebec police said.

 

Panic in the streets

 

Pandemonium broke out inside the college and on surrounding streets minutes after the shooting began.

 

Hundreds of students poured out of the school, running with their heads covered. Many were crying and yelling into their cellphones, and several people fleeing the scene had blood stains on their clothes.

 

People collapsed on nearby streets as they tried to flee, and some of those lying on the ground were trampled by others as they ran away.

 

While hundreds of students sought refuge at nearby Concordia University, others hid for as long as three hours, until police with dogs escorted them out to safety.

 

Eyewitness Andrew Galle said he emerged from Dawson College's campus radio station to a gruesome scene. "There was glass everywhere, and a big pile of blood, with tracks out the front door and outside the school itself," he said.

 

Police officers were seen dragging a bloody body out of the school about 45 minutes after the first gunshots were heard. They placed the body next to a patrol car and threw a sheet over it. Police confirmed Wednesday night that the body was that of the gunman.

 

Officers then searched the school, floor by floor and room by room, amid initial fears that there might have have been a second gunman. The school was declared empty about three hours after the first shots were heard.

 

The shooting paralyzed Montreal's downtown quarter for most of the afternoon. Nearby office buildings and schools were evacuated, surrounding streets were shut down and Montreal's green subway line, which serves Dawson College, was closed for several hours. Cellphone networks were jammed because of the number of people trying to dial out from the area.

 

Gunman said he was 'ready for action'

 

Police searched Gill's car late Wednesday night, and visited his parents' home in Fabreville, a borough in Laval, north of Montreal.

 

Neighbours told CBC Radio that Gill lived with his parents in the house.

 

In his profile on vampirefreaks.com, a website devoted to Goth culture, Gill called himself "Trench," and wrote: "You will come to know him as the Angel of Death."

 

"Work sucks ⦠School sucks ⦠Life sucks ⦠What else can I say?" he wrote. "Metal and Goth kick *bottom*. Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime."

 

A photo gallery accompanying the profile includes pictures of Gill brandishing a Beretta CX4 Storm semi-automatic rifle. In the last seven photos, he is wearing a black trench coat and holding the rifle. The caption below the last photo reads, "Ready for Action."

 

School remains closed

 

Dawson College is closed until at least Monday, director general Robert Filion said, but added that repairs and the investigation could push that date back.

 

"Our first priority is to set up psychological support when we open," said Filion. "It's not business as usual ⦠What happened yesterday deserves to be handled with great care and Dawson will do everything it can.

 

"Something has been broken and we have to work together to build it anew."

 

About 10,000 students attend the junior college, which offers a two-year pre-university program or a three-year technical program.

 

Blood reserves down

 

The province's blood collection agency, Héma Québec, is asking for blood donors in the wake of Wednesday's shootings. The agency wants people with type O-negative blood to donate Thursday, to replenish the province's reserves.

 

Officials with Héma Québec said they used large quantities of the universal blood type on Wednesday to treat the victims.

 

Clinics are being held Thursday in Montreal's Place Ville Marie and Place Versailles, as well as at Place Laurier in Quebec City.

With files from the Canadian Press

 

Source: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

According to Wikipedia and The Toronto Star, the gunman used a Berretta CX4 Storm.

 

This is indeed really bad, it is similar to the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999 and the earlier Montreal Massacre in 1989.

 

More info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting

 

 

Comments?

 

xboxrulz

This type of stuff makes me feel physically sick to my stomach. The sheer lack to sense this type of stuff makes blows my mind. I can understand suicide, I mean, I don't agree with it but I can see the logic that is often there. But simply going out in a blaze of "glory", where the 'glory' is killing numerous people who have rarely if ever even interacted with you? It just makes me sick. Plus now the "news" media is grabbing onto the fear mongering and not going to be letting go for awhile. It all just makes me sick. once other people post some comments maybe I'll be able to get my thoughts into a coherent post...

yes, it is a sick and twisted thing to do to injure nearly a dozen people and kill one.xboxrulz

Angel of death? Maybe he was a fan of Slayer band (which fits perfectly in the context, by the way...).

Yeah... it makes me sick too... know I shouldn't say this but he should have go out and kill those that made his life lousy... not some strangers... guess maybe that's why he is crazy or his life is lousy.... just keep hiding away from the truth....

Angel of death? Maybe he was a fan of Slayer band (which fits perfectly in the context, by the way...).

That's exactly where people who think that everything except "goth" and metal sucks draws their brilliant ideas... The song, by the way for those who are not familiar with the band, is about Jesef Mengele, the infamous nazi doctor performing hideous experiments at the Auschwitz (sp?) concentration camp.



I understand that the modern way of life causes a lot of mental problems and never before people have been more mentally sick. And I completely agree with Jeigh: I understand suicide, the person just doesn't see a way out of his problems and has lost all hope and has no help available or doesn't understand to seek for help. But what the hell drives this kind of person to inflict harm on people who are completely innocent. If it were for revenge, I'd have some understanding but just random killing?!

Yeah... it makes me sick too... know I shouldn't say this but he should have go out and kill those that made his life lousy... not some strangers... guess maybe that's why he is crazy or his life is lousy.... just keep hiding away from the truth....

according to his blog, he hated everyone. He says that anyone with friends or just jocks are bullies and he was out to kill them.

xboxrulz
Edited September 15, 2006 by xboxrulz (see edit history)

the world is going really crazy .. i`m sick of this type of news , everyday somebody goes with a gun and shoots somebody .

this is lik the 2nd time in Montreal.xboxrulz

It's the American Beauty Seriously speaking I don't know what could have driven him towards the shootout. Maybe racism or something...

according to his blog, he hated everyone. He says that anyone with friends or just jocks are bullies and he was out to kill them.
xboxrulz

as I said earlier ^


xboxrulz

People are insane. It makes me so furious to think that there are so many people out there who have no respect for others. It frustrates me so much, because those types of people are so unbelievably self-absorbed that they've no idea the repercussions their actions have on other people's lives. I can't stand either when poeple blame these sorts of happenings on things like "societal views", or "parental upbringing", because that's just crap. They, as an individual, are to be blamed fully for the choices that they make. There should be no escape from that by pointing a finger at such a vague concept as "society". And to hear claims that this man posted several messages indicating he was ready to "take action" against people, and no one reported it or tried to talk to him to understand to what extent he was acting is just unfathomable.

 

If you are in a situation where you think something bad might happen, and you have an opportunity to stop it - DO IT. We all need to step up and become stronger people. Your strength and your involvement might prevent a real tradgedy from occurring. We as individuals can no longer be so self-absorbed. It only takes one person to make a difference, and that goes both ways.

It only took ONE person to take all those lives in Montreal, and it might have only taken ONE person to have stopped it.

Poor guy was screwed up in the head, no wonder he went on a slaughter.Reading about him, I think he was severely depressed because of repressed anger. A lot of repressed anger. For his mind to cope with the tension of repressing such anger, he created an imaginative world, where he was the judge. In reality, he was an angry man, angry at society. What could he have been angry at? I suppose him feeling as though he wasn't really part of his society. The world in which he grew up in had changed, in his mind, it was against him. Or rather, the people in it were against him.Listening to heavy metal and general 'goth' music is a factor of his creation. If he had been listening to opera, he may have taken a much more dramatic form of action. Perhaps to the extent of calling himself fate. But because it was heavy metal, he created a religious image for himself, that of the angel of death.He dilluded himself, masking revenge with 'glory'.Unfortunately, things aren't going to get better. To be honest, with the chain of events that have happened in the past 10 years, I would say we're headed for a major event. What it could be, I don't have a clue. But what happens afterwards will shape our future. Everyone's future.

He was also interested in the Columbine massacre too by constantly playing a game about that event. In the game, you're the two boys who went on the rampage.xboxrulz

What a stupid game to have.