I just heard about this. A guy started shooting at random people in the cafeteria, and then shot himself. (I was a student there in the early 90s.)
I don't get it, the murder rate in Montreal is low, but at educational institutions we've had quite a few horrible events (the Ecole Polytechnique murders, Valery Fabrikant at Concordia).
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Your hometown is utter chaos this afternoon (at least downtown). Word is here that the shooters did not commit suicide but were killed by police. There were two shooters. The general has 6 wounded in critical condition and 2 in serious and a couple in stable but unclear if they were shot or not. More might have gone to Sacred Heart but I don't know.
What a terrible thing. I was a student at Richardson High School in Dallas when Jeremy (later memorialized in the Pearl Jam song) shot himself. It was truly an awful day and so were the weeks and months that followed for my friends that were in the same classroom. My heart goes out to the students at Dawson.
It sounds bad. I hope that there are no deaths (besides the killers). I wonder why they did it ...
Probably the shooter was upset that Dawson hadn't made an appearance in "Map That Campus."
Latest from CBC news (5:30): One gunman, he's dead. He was killed by police, not a suicide. Twenty were shot. Three critically injured, one of them (a woman) may have died (unconfirmed).
He shot people outside Plaza Alexis Neon which is across the street from Dawson, he shot people in the cafeteria (first or second floor - I forget) and went up to the fifth floor and apparently started shooting again. The fact that he went up to the fifth - it sounds like he had someone (or several people) in mind, but perhaps not. After all that it is amazing that so few people died so far.
Local news is saying the same thing. 3 in surgery now, no one dead other than the gunman. He started shooting at 12:41 and the first police to arrive shot him dead at 12:44. Apparently the shooter was with several other people who were not armed and it is not clear if they were involved at all.
wow. this is almost exactly what happened at my undergrad college the spring before i started there. a law student flipped out and shot people in class and then left class and walked up and down the main street on campus and shot tons of people. he actually was acquitted because he was deemed seriously mentallly ill. it was very scary to feel so completely unsafe there (when normally it was just normal college town with normal dangers). i feel for the people at dawson college - this is very sad.