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1 woman and gunman dead in Montreal college shootings

 

September 13, 2006

Time: 12:41 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) Source: CBC internet site

Place: Montreal (Quebec, Canada) 71W34, 45N32

 

One person has died in hospital in the shooting rampage at a downtown

Montreal college Wednesday that also left the gunman dead and 19

others injured.

 

Police direct students away from the shooting scene at Dawson College

in Montreal on Wednesday. (Peter McCabe/Canadian Press) Montreal

paramedics confirmed 20 people were taken to hospital with injuries

ranging from gunshot wounds to emotional shock following the shooting

at Dawson College. One woman died in hospital from wounds sustained

during the attack, officials confirmed.

"We heard that probably one of the three that had been transported to

the [Montreal] General [Hospital] died later on," said André

Champagne, a spokesman with Urgences Santé, the city's ambulance

service.

Hospital officials said the other two critical patients were

undergoing emergency surgery late Wednesday.

Three other victims were taken to Jean Talon Hospital and others were

transported to the Jewish General Hospital.

 

The lone gunman was shot dead by police minutes after he opened fire

on the student body at Dawson College, a CEGEP serving about 10,000

students near the Old Forum in Montreal. The suspect reportedly

walked into Dawson College around 12:41 p.m. ET and began firing at

students in the cafeteria. Police arrived three minutes later.

 

"They saw a suspect shooting inside the walls of Dawson," police

Chief Yves Delorme told a news conference. "So the first policeman

took charge of the situation, and shot in the direction of the

suspect, and the suspect died."

 

Television images showed police officers dragging a bloody body out

of the main doors of the building, leaving a trail of blood on the

street. Earlier reports had said as many as three shooters walked

into Dawson College. At one point, police had told local media

outlets that two gunmen were dead and a third was still at large.

Montreal police said they now believe only one suspect was involved

in the shooting rampage that terrorized the college students and

staff. Police said the motive for the shootings is unknown. "There is

no racist connotation or no terrorist link as far as we know,"

Delorme said.

 

Students inside Dawson College told reporters they heard several

shots in the building just after lunchtime. Eyewitnesses say they saw

a tall skinny man, wearing a black trench coat and a Mohawk haircut,

walk into the cafeteria carrying a large gun. He apparently fired

several shots. Student Michel Boyer sought shelter behind a reception

desk after seeing a gunman and fleeing from the vicinity of the

shootings. "I thought this was fake, and it was just an excuse to get

out of class," he told CBC Newsworld. "I did run away as soon as I

did see that it was real." His voice shaking, he added, "It was the

most scary thing that has ever happened to me."

 

more on story:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/13/shots-dawson.html