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Montreal gunman liked playing school massacre internet game
Last updated at 20:22pm on 14.09.06
Chaotic scene at Montreal college. Click on the picture to see a photograph of the alleged gunman Jimveer Gill
The gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a Canadian college said on an internet blog that one of his favourite computer games was about the Columbine high school shootings.
The man - dressed in a black trenchcoat - who opened fire at Montreal's Dawson College is Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal.
He was later shot dead by police.
The attack killed one person and wounded 19 others. Six victims are in a critical condition, two are listed as serious. A woman in her twenties died in hospital from her wounds.
The police official, who did not want to be named, said officers had searched Gill's home. In postings on a website called VampireFreaks.com, blogs in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle and donning a long black trench coat and combat boots.
One photo has a tombstone with his name printed on it - below it the phrase: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."
He wrote he was drinking whiskey in the morning and the night before the incident, he described his mood as "crazy" and "postal".
The last of six journal entries was posted about two hours before the gunmen was shot to death after the college shooting.
He said on the site that he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre," an internet-based computer game that simulated the April 20, 1999, shootings at the Colorado high school where two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people before committing suicide.
"His name is Trench. You will come to know him as the Angel of Death," he wrote on his vampirefreaks.com profile. "He is not a people person.
He also wrote that "Life is a video game you've got to die sometime."
Below a picture of Gill aiming the barrel of a gun at the camera there's the inscription: "I think I have an obsession with guns."
"Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a head shot of Gill grimacing.
He writes that he is 6ft 1in, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. His weakness is laziness and he fears nothing, the blog reads.
A phone call to Gill's family home was answered by a female voice who declined to comment. A neighbour who lives across the street from the home said he was a loner.
"There were never any friends," Louise Leykauf said. "He kept to himself. He always wore dark clothing."
Witnesses said Gill started shooting outside the college, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word.
At times, he hid behind vending machines before emerging to take aim - at one point at a teenager who tried to photograph him with his cell phone.
Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack. Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the gunman opened fire haphazardly at no target in particular, until he saw the police and took aim at them.
Dawson, with about 10,000 students, was the first English-language institution in Quebec's network of university preparatory colleges when it was founded in 1969.
Canada's worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine, 25, killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on December 6, 1989, before shooting himself.
