guttershark
09-13-2006, 04:35 PM
article HERE (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/09/13/1834543-cp.html)
That's a really sad day for some people here...
Third time this thing happen here:
Polytechnique (1989)
Concordia (1992)
And today Dawson (2006):
the shooters are dead, 1 has been shooted by the police the other has commited suicide (many people have been hurted, no students have been killed)
injured in Montreal college shooting: report
By DENE MOORE AND ALEXANDER PANETTA
Students take cover behind a car at Dawson College after reports of a gunman in the building in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006. (CP PHOTO/Ryan Remiorz)
MONTREAL (CP) - An armed man dressed in black and sporting a Mohawk haircut entered a Montreal college on Wednesday and went on a shooting rampage, wounding 20 people and causing widespread panic.
Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme said the gunman died and that the 20 injured included three people in serious condition. Police said there was only one gunman. Earlier unconfirmed reports indicated there may have been several suspects.
"For now, I am limiting it to one suspect who died after a police intervention on site," Delorme told a news conference.
He did not say whether the man killed himself or was shot by police.
Asked whether all the victims were female, Delorme said he did not know the gender of the victims.
He also dismissed suggestions that race or terrorism played a role.
"There's no information that leads us to believe that it's something other than what happened at the scene."
Student Andrea Barone said he was sitting in the cafeteria with his girlfriend and some friends when he heard some shots.
"At first I thought it was a firecracker," said Barone, 17. "Then I turned around and I saw him. He was dressed in a black trenchcoat and I saw his hand firing a handgun in every direction."
Barone said all of the students then hit the floor to take cover.
He said a police officer then emerged from a corner next to the cafeteria and fired a shot in the direction of the gunman no more than several metres away and missed him.
Students were trapped around the gunman.
Five or six more police officers showed up taking cover behind a wall while the gunman had his back to a vending machine as the officers began to surround him.
Barone said it was like a running battle with five or six shots fired in both directions every minute but he said the officers were hesitant to move in because of the students around him.
Barone said every time the police fired a shot or approached the gunman, the man said 'Get back, get back.'
The man eventually went down in a hail of gunfire.
The officers then helped the students leave the cafeteria and they had to crawl out on their bellies along a wall.
Barone said as they were crawling out toward an exit they saw a girl who had been shot in the torso and who was face down surrounded by a pool of blood.
He said officers told them: 'Don't look, don't look. Keep going out.'
Devansh Shri Vastava said he was in the college's cafeteria when a man dressed in black combat clothing stormed in and began shooting at people.
"He had a laser gun or something, a big rifle, and he just started shooting at people," he said.
"We all ran upstairs. There were cops firing. It was so crazy. I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care he was just shooting at everybody. I just got out."
Derick Osei, 19, said he also saw the gunman.
"I just got out of class and I was walking down the stairs and saw one," Osei said.
"He had one of them SWAT army guns and just started shooting up the place. I ran up to the third floor and I looked down and he was still shooting. He was hiding behind the vending machines and he came out with a gun and started pointing and pointed at me. So I ran up the stairs. I saw a girl get shot in the leg."
Osei said people in the cafeteria were all lying on the floor.
"At first he was shooting around the caf and he looked up and saw there were people on the third floor and he started aiming for the third floor. I thought 'I am not trying to get shot so I got out.' "
The shootings recalled Marc Lepine's murderous rampage at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique school on Dec. 6, 1989, when he opened fire and ended up killing 14 women.
Another shooting in Montreal occurred in Montreal in 1992 when Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues.
Raamias Hernandez, 19, said he had just finished his class at Dawson on Wednesday when everybody started running.
He said he saw a man dressed in a black jacket and sporting a Mohawk haircut. Hernandez started to take pictures on a camera phone with his friend and the suspect saw them and started shooting.
TV footage showed people being whisked away on stretchers from the building, which is near the old Montreal Forum downtown.
Footage also showed hundreds of students fleeing the building.
People were also evacuated from two nearby shopping malls.
The shootings disrupted traffic in and around the area and also led to the closure of several subway stations for several hours.
Dawson College is home to about 10,000 students who are usually enrolled in a two-year pre-university program or a three-year technical program.
In Quebec City, Premier Jean Charest said it was a sad day.
"We are deeply saddened for the victims, the families, the parents of the children who study at Dawson," said Charest, who was headed for Montreal.
Just wanted to know you opinion on killing and shooting !
Thanks
That's a really sad day for some people here...
Third time this thing happen here:
Polytechnique (1989)
Concordia (1992)
And today Dawson (2006):
the shooters are dead, 1 has been shooted by the police the other has commited suicide (many people have been hurted, no students have been killed)
injured in Montreal college shooting: report
By DENE MOORE AND ALEXANDER PANETTA
Students take cover behind a car at Dawson College after reports of a gunman in the building in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006. (CP PHOTO/Ryan Remiorz)
MONTREAL (CP) - An armed man dressed in black and sporting a Mohawk haircut entered a Montreal college on Wednesday and went on a shooting rampage, wounding 20 people and causing widespread panic.
Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme said the gunman died and that the 20 injured included three people in serious condition. Police said there was only one gunman. Earlier unconfirmed reports indicated there may have been several suspects.
"For now, I am limiting it to one suspect who died after a police intervention on site," Delorme told a news conference.
He did not say whether the man killed himself or was shot by police.
Asked whether all the victims were female, Delorme said he did not know the gender of the victims.
He also dismissed suggestions that race or terrorism played a role.
"There's no information that leads us to believe that it's something other than what happened at the scene."
Student Andrea Barone said he was sitting in the cafeteria with his girlfriend and some friends when he heard some shots.
"At first I thought it was a firecracker," said Barone, 17. "Then I turned around and I saw him. He was dressed in a black trenchcoat and I saw his hand firing a handgun in every direction."
Barone said all of the students then hit the floor to take cover.
He said a police officer then emerged from a corner next to the cafeteria and fired a shot in the direction of the gunman no more than several metres away and missed him.
Students were trapped around the gunman.
Five or six more police officers showed up taking cover behind a wall while the gunman had his back to a vending machine as the officers began to surround him.
Barone said it was like a running battle with five or six shots fired in both directions every minute but he said the officers were hesitant to move in because of the students around him.
Barone said every time the police fired a shot or approached the gunman, the man said 'Get back, get back.'
The man eventually went down in a hail of gunfire.
The officers then helped the students leave the cafeteria and they had to crawl out on their bellies along a wall.
Barone said as they were crawling out toward an exit they saw a girl who had been shot in the torso and who was face down surrounded by a pool of blood.
He said officers told them: 'Don't look, don't look. Keep going out.'
Devansh Shri Vastava said he was in the college's cafeteria when a man dressed in black combat clothing stormed in and began shooting at people.
"He had a laser gun or something, a big rifle, and he just started shooting at people," he said.
"We all ran upstairs. There were cops firing. It was so crazy. I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care he was just shooting at everybody. I just got out."
Derick Osei, 19, said he also saw the gunman.
"I just got out of class and I was walking down the stairs and saw one," Osei said.
"He had one of them SWAT army guns and just started shooting up the place. I ran up to the third floor and I looked down and he was still shooting. He was hiding behind the vending machines and he came out with a gun and started pointing and pointed at me. So I ran up the stairs. I saw a girl get shot in the leg."
Osei said people in the cafeteria were all lying on the floor.
"At first he was shooting around the caf and he looked up and saw there were people on the third floor and he started aiming for the third floor. I thought 'I am not trying to get shot so I got out.' "
The shootings recalled Marc Lepine's murderous rampage at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique school on Dec. 6, 1989, when he opened fire and ended up killing 14 women.
Another shooting in Montreal occurred in Montreal in 1992 when Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant killed four colleagues.
Raamias Hernandez, 19, said he had just finished his class at Dawson on Wednesday when everybody started running.
He said he saw a man dressed in a black jacket and sporting a Mohawk haircut. Hernandez started to take pictures on a camera phone with his friend and the suspect saw them and started shooting.
TV footage showed people being whisked away on stretchers from the building, which is near the old Montreal Forum downtown.
Footage also showed hundreds of students fleeing the building.
People were also evacuated from two nearby shopping malls.
The shootings disrupted traffic in and around the area and also led to the closure of several subway stations for several hours.
Dawson College is home to about 10,000 students who are usually enrolled in a two-year pre-university program or a three-year technical program.
In Quebec City, Premier Jean Charest said it was a sad day.
"We are deeply saddened for the victims, the families, the parents of the children who study at Dawson," said Charest, who was headed for Montreal.
Just wanted to know you opinion on killing and shooting !
Thanks