www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/09/14/1838305-sun.html
The 25-year-old Laval man wrote: "Work sucks, school sucks, life sucks ... On goth lifestyle forums where he regularly participated, he signed his posts as "Fatality666" and finished all his comments with: "Life is a video game and you gonna die sometime." He also said on a blog: "Give them what they deserve before you go." His mother, who lived in Laval with him, just north of Montreal, confirmed her son left last morning with her car. I was looking for him" she said before bursting into tears. On the pictures he posted on goth sites, Gill wore all black clothes, and showed multiple weapons he owned. Gill wreaked havoc for some 15 minutes yesterday afternoon -- killing a woman and wounding 19 people -- at Dawson College before he was finally gunned down. At least eight of the wounded were in critical condition. The tragedy at the downtown English-speaking CEGEP called to mind the 1999 horror of Columbine High School in the US -- the madman was also wearing a black trenchcoat, a number of witnesses said. around 12:40 pm According to witnesses, he started shooting at random a minute later. A student told Sun Media the man had filtered through a crowd of smokers gathered at the school's entrance.
Have your say "There must have been some 50 people," said Cyrielle Vincent, 21. "We noticed him right away -- he stood out with his black coat and mohawk. FACE-TO-FACE Two officers passing by the college came almost face-to-face with the gunman. They gave chase, exchanging a number of shots with the killer in the building. The trenchcoat-clad shooter, carrying an automatic rifle and two other guns, turned the college cafeteria into a combat zone. Screaming and sobbing youngsters spilled out onto the streets. Inside, the cafeteria was transformed into a shooting gallery in a scene eerily reminiscent of the city's 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre in which 14 women were killed. The gunman took cover behind a row of vending machines and exchanged gunfire with police while petrified students dropped to the floor in an effort to elude the barrage of bullets. Surrounded by police, he repeatedly barked a single order each time the officers inched toward him: "Get back! The exchange ended with the attacker slumped on the floor, collapsed in a hail of gunfire. Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme confirmed that officers killed the gunman, whom Sun Media sources confirmed last night was Gill. Student Soher Marous said the gunman said nothing when he entered the college. Andrea Barone was sitting there after lunch with his girlfriend when he heard shots. "At first I thought it was a firecracker," said Barone, 17. He was dressed in a black trenchcoat and I saw his hand firing a handgun in every direction." SURROUNDED Police took cover behind a wall beside the cafeteria. 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 students were in the line of fire. Another witness said students began snapping photos and capturing videos from their cellphone cameras as they watched the scene from a third-floor balcony. "The shooter sees us -- and he shoots upwards," said Gianni Petrella, 17. The attacker was hit during a barrage of at least six shots fired into the cafeteria, Barone said.
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