Gill walked up to Dawson College in Montreal around 12:45pm clad in black and carrying three weapons, including a semi-automatic, a handgun and a shotgun. He opened fire outside the college, then entered the canteen when it was crowded with students and staff.
He murdered one women in cold blood and wounded 19 others in his 30 minute gun rampage before being killed in a shootout with police. Six people remain critically ill following the attack.
Gill had a blog on a website devoted to the Goth sub-culture. His blog contains a photo gallery of more than 50 pictures showing the young man in a variety of poses with different guns and wearing a long black trench coat. "His name is Trench," he wrote in his profile. "You will come to know him as the Angel of Death."
Dawson College is a junior college in central Montreal and has about 10,000 students some as young as 16-17.
I watched intently as Canadian television broadcast live pictures of the scene showing police and emergency vehicles on the streets and crowds of frightened students fleeing the college's buildings. Six of the victims are in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of Montreal General Hospital. They are recovering from surgery after suffering gunshot wounds to the head and stomach. Some of the gunman's victims have multiple wounds. Others were only shot once.
Police arrived at the scene in three minutes because some officers were already at the college on an unrelated call. Their quick action saved lives. A new technique was used; instead of establishing a perimeter around the place and waiting for the SWAT team, the first officers went right inside.
Police have ruled out terrorism or racism as a motive. They say Gill had fired randomly at no particular target until police arrived when he began aiming at them. Gill was obviously a disturbed lonely man, one who listed a movie about "Columbine" as an inspiration.
Kimveer Gill
His blog includes a photo of a tombstone with his name printed on it - below it the phrase: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."
He wrote on his vampirefreaks.com profile.
"He is not a people person. He has met a handfull (sic) of people in his life who are decent." But he writes that he finds the vast majority to be "worthless, no good, kniving, betraying lieing (sic), deceptive."
The last of Gill's six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before the gunmen was shot dead after the college shooting. In the latest one, Gill extols the virtues of a morning quaff of whisky. Other posts Wednesday deal with topics as mundane as dry contact lenses, purple freezies, and eating eggs and toast for breakfast.
The blog's prominent photo shows a close up of Gill curled into the fetal position, his intense brown eyes peering into the camera from between his bent knees.
"Rock and Roll baby!" reads the caption below another photo, tongue outstretched, holding up a black semi-automatic weapon with one hand and making the sign of the devil with another.
"I think I have an obbsetion (sic) with guns . . . muahahaha," is the inscription below another picture of Gill aiming the barrel of the gun at the camera.
"Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a head shot of Gill grimacing.
The site also has lengthly lists of likes and dislikes. On the "likes" list are: first-person-shooter video games, "Super Psycho Maniacs roaming the streets freely," massacres, trenchcoats, destruction and "crushing my enemies skulls."
He also shows a penchant for semi-automatic handguns, combat shotguns, sawed-off shotguns, assault rifles and myriad other weapons.
He dislikes: "The world and everything in it."
"But to be more specific," he continues, he hates jocks, preps, country music, Hip Hop, "all those who oppose my rule."
Gill seems to harbour particular disdain for authority, including police, "all the government on Earth," "bible-thumping know-it-alls" and God.
Gills list of favourite music groups is a who's who of heavy metal: Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson, Iron Maiden, Danzig and Metallica, but only the "old stuff."
His favourite movies list includes mostly gory horror films. He enjoys violent video games including the controversial "Postal," a first-person shooter game, in which the protagonist goes on a killing spree while completing everyday errands.
A questionnaire on the blog reveals both banal and disturbing insights into Gill's life.
He likes drinking, owns 300 CDs, prefers Burger King over MacDonalds and says "heavy metal rules."
He writes that he is 6-foot-1, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. His weakness is laziness and he fears nothing. A goal he'd like to achieve by the end of the year is to stay alive.
However, responding to the question, "How do you want to die?" Gill replied "like Romeo and Juliet - or in a hail of gunfire." (He got his wish).
The shooting spree has revived painful memories of the December 6, 1989 attack at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, when Marc Lepine shot and killed 14 young women before turning the gun on himself. As well as the April 28, 1999 copycat attach by a 14-year-old boy, which kills one student, wounds one other at a high school in Taber, Alberta - eight days after Columbine massacre.
Gun laws were tightened after that massacre but the current Harper government has plans to roll them back in part. Lets hope this changes his mind.
Flags everywhere in Canada fly at half mass, peace to those who have to suffer for the sins one one darl soul.
*Update 6:04pm Contrary to first reports from the Montrael Police the bullet that killed Gill was in fact self inflicted according to the autopsy report. It looks the coward didn't get his wish after all. I wonder what the devil thinks about suicide.
*Apparently Gill used three legally registered guns in the attack including a new gun on the market a "Beretta Storm". Basically a hand gun with a longer stock only able to fire low power, small caliber rounds. This is not legal for hunting though.
*It was confirmed the women who was shot and killed has been identified as Anastasia DeSousa 18, a second year business student.
Later,
Kenaz
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