Kimveer Gill

Kimveer Gill (July 9, 1981 – September 13, 2006) was the shooter involved in a school shooting referred to as the Dawson College shooting at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on September 13, 2006. He injured at least 20 people, killed one, then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after being shot in the arm by police during the incident.

Personal background
Kimveer Gill graduated from Rosemere High School, and lived in the borough of Fabreville in Laval, Quebec at the time of the attack and his suicide.

Gill briefly received military training from the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School in Saint-Jean, Quebec, from January 17 to February 16, 1999. He did not complete his basic training for unknown reasons. He was deemed unsuitable for military service and agreed to leave before receiving extensive weapons training.

French-language television network TVA reported that Gill was a member of a shooting club and visited the Ville Saint-Pierre facility occasionally before the day of the shooting. Gill's mother, Parvinder Sandhu, told a South Asian radio station, Radio Humsafar, that Gill regularly spent time practicing his shooting. .

Gill's funeral was held on September 19 2006 in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec. There was strict security outside, and only invited guests were allowed to attend the ceremony. The ceremony was held the same day as the funeral for his victim, Anastasia De Sousa.

Kimveer Gill described himself in his profile on VampireFreaks.com, which is no longer accessible: "His name is Trench. You will come to know him as the Angel of Death . "He is male. He is 25 years of age. He lives in Quebec. He finds that it is an O.K place to live. He is not a people person. He has met a handful of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, kniving, betraying, lying, deceptive, motherfuckers. Work sucks..........School sucks..........Life sucks..........What else can I say. Metal and Goth kick ass. Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime."

He also wrote, "I hate this world, I hate the people in it, I hate the way people live, I hate God, I hate the deceivers, I hate betrayers, I hate religious zealots, I hate everything ... I hate so much ... (I could write 1,000 more lines like these, but does it really matter, does anyone even care),"

In extensive interviews with friends, teachers, and former colleagues, Kimveer Gill was described as a quiet, nice, sensitive, and generous person. He was described as "the nicest, gentlest person" with "a heart of gold". Despite early media reports, most people from his high school years remember him having friends and certainly never being bullied. His friends say that near the end, Kimveer Gill had a fascination with 9/11 conspiracy theories, the war in Iraq, and the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. He liked Jack Daniel's whiskey and the odd hit of ecstasy. In the last few months of his life, he cut off contact with friends, and seemed sadder than ever.

Dawson College shooting

 * ''Main article: Dawson College shooting

On September 13, 2006, Gill arrived at Dawson College in Montreal and opened fire on students within the main building, killing Anastasia De Sousa, 18, and wounding nineteen other people before officer Denis Côté and other police officers shot him in the arm. Gill then turned his gun on himself and committed suicide, according to witnesses, authorities, and the autopsy report. Authorities concluded the attack was premeditated, after a short suicide note was found on Gill's body.

Possible attacks on other schools
In mid-January 2007, the Montreal police department revealed additional information mentioned that Gill planned on doing similar attacks at other institutions across the city of Montreal. Among those included a secondary school in Laval, Vanier College, and the Université de Montréal. Police have also revealed that Gill planned to kill several members of his family. Some plans and maps were found in Gill's car near the site of the Dawson College event.

Possible motives
In Kimveer's online journal there are several possible motives. Some point to the following entries as being particularly telling: “People kill each other

Rape women

Molest children

Deceive and betray

Destroy lives

Bullying and torturing each other at school

What kind of world is this? What the fuck is wrong with people. This world….this life, is worst than hell.

You see

You see what kind of world we live in

No

No, I don’t think you see

You still don’t”

“I’m so sick of hearing about jocks and preps making life hard for the goths and others who look different, or are different. The other day on T.V. they were talking about this 15 year old kid that was killed by the cops, cuz’ he took a fake gun to school. Then they said he was emotionally disturbed and suicidal. Aaaaa, Duh!! If people were making your life a living hell wouldn’t you be hurt emotionally. How come no one ever talkes about those MOTHER FUCKING JOCKS AND PREPS who’s fault it is. Oh no. Heaven forbid. We couldn’t posibly say that. Why does society applaude jocks? I don’t understand. They are the worse kind of people on earth. And the preps are no better, they think they’re better than others…………but they’re not. And all of society applaudes the jocks and preps. As if we are all supposed to be like them. Newsflash motherfuckers: We will never be like them. NEVER.”

Furthermore:

“Stop Bullying It’s not only the bully’s fault you know!! It’s the teachers and principals fault for turning a blind eye, just cuz it’s not their job. You fuckers are pathetic. It’s the police’s fault for not doing anything when people conplain (oops, my mistake, the cops are corrupt sons of whores, so it’s not like they can do anything about it.) FUCK THE POLICE It’s society’s fault for acting like it’s normal for people to be assholes to each other. Society disgusts me. It’s everyone’s fault for being so apathetic towards fucking everything that doesn’t affect them personally. FUCK YOU SOCIETY.”

A handwritten diary found by police at Gill's home revealed the extent of Gill's anger. "It was very obvious his state of mind was deteriorating greatly over the last three weeks," a police source said. . In a statement made on Friday, October 20, 2006, the head of the major crime squad for Montreal police Richard Dupuis states: "We know he was angry against the world, so it was a kind of vengeance...There is no explanation why Dawson. It could be Dawson, it could be another place".

VampireFreaks online profile
An online image gallery on Gill's vampirefreaks.com blog (Mirror1 Mirror2), under his handle "fatality666" contained more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses. In several images, Gill either points a Beretta Cx4 Storm semi-automatic carbine at the camera, or wears a long black trench coat or what he identifies as combat boots. Most of the photos showing Gill with weapons were taken by a friend, according to his mother.

Among his many posted grievances (Link To Blog Entries), he stated that he hated school and work. Gill also referenced more than 50 movies, and 3 TV shows.

Video games
Although widely reported in the media  , Super Columbine Massacre was not listed as one of Gill's favourite video games or mentioned anywhere in his blog or profile.

These are the all the video games Kimveer reported in the section of the profile titled "Favorite Games:" (in actual order):

Favourite music
Kimveer's self-reported love of "Goth" was the topic of media interest, and it was widely reported that the word "Goth", in Kimveer's writings, was a reference to the alternative industrial and goth subculture rather than a reference to the unrelated and lesser known gothic metal music. The actual list of favourite bands and music on Gill profile has been described in the media as a "who's who of heavy metal". Mick Mercer, author, noted music journalist, and a leading historian of Goth music  stated, of Kimveer Gill, that he was "not a Goth. Never a Goth. The bands he listed as his chosen form of ear-bashing were relentlessly metal and standard grunge, rock and goth metal, with some industrial presence.", "Kimveer Gill listened to metal", "He had nothing whatsoever to do with Goth" and further commented "I realise that like many Neos [, Kimveer Gill] may even have believed he somehow was a Goth, because they're only really noted for spectacularly missing the point." Mercer emphasized that he was not blaming Heavy Metal music for Gill's actions and "It doesn’t matter actually what music he liked.". .

No specific involvement with any actual music scene has been established or documented.

Kimveer Gill's online profile lists his favourite bands as follow (in actual order):

In a separate section of Gill's profile, titled "Other Favorite Stuff:", the following is found:

Marilyn Manson, author of Gill's favourite song, and Manson fans are commonly assumed to part of the goth subculture, but in fact are unassociated with it; a mistake which has led to the incorrect impression that there is a link between the goth subculture and Satanism in the past.

The Megadeth song "A Tout Le Monde" was blamed by the media for the shootings. He had mentioned in his online blog that he had listened to it the day of the shootings. However, Megadeth's singer Dave Mustaine said Gill had "turned a beautiful song into something ugly and nasty" and that Gill was "not worthy of being a Megadeth fan." Mustaine called the song "a gift to those who are in the process of healing" after the shootings, distancing his music from Gill's interpretation of it.

Other likes and dislikes
Kimveer Gill also writes his likes and dislikes in his profile. His likes, as stated in his vampirefreaks.com profile, are:

Kimveer Gills dislikes, as stated in his vampirefreaks.com profile, are:

The blog was removed sometime prior to September 14, 2006. However, it was accessed heavily in the interval after the killings and its contents were widely reported. (Link To Blog Entries)