Montreal police confirmed that the alleged guman who killed one woman and injured 19 others at a college was Kimveer Gill.
MONTREAL: The gunman who went on a fatal shooting spree at a Montreal college was a 25-year-old Indian-Canadian, police said on Thursday, depicted by the press as obsessed with weapons, violent video games and the Goth subculture.
At a news conference, Montreal police chief Yvan Delorme confirmed reports that Kimveer Gill was the man who entered Dawson College on Wednesday and started shooting, killing a woman and wounding 19 before police shot him dead.
Canadian media early Thursday identified Gill, a Montreal native, as the shooter and said he was obsessed with weapons, violent video games and the Goth subculture. It was also reported that he had threatened violence on his website.
He wrote in his blog that he hated humanity and wanted to die "under a hail of bullets," they reported.
Several newspapers published photos, obtained from his website, of a young man wearing a Mohawk hairstyle, dressed in black and brandishing a gun or commando knife.
In the last photo on the website, Gill appears dressed in a black trench coat and carrying an automatic weapon with a text that read "ready for action," the French-language daily La Presse reported.
"Turn this world into a cemetery. Crush anyone who gets in the way. Leave a river of blood on your way. Leave a river of blood in your wake," La Presse quoted him as writing.
Delorme confirmed Gill was the gunman in Wednesday's rampage, but said criticized the media for quickly revealing his identity and details about his life.
"It isn't necessarily helpful for an investigation to prematurely advise the family and go looking on the website," Delorme said in an interview with Radio-Canada.
According to La Presse, on the morning of the rampage, Gill made a new entry in his blog, asking readers to listen to a song by heavy-metal group Megadeth, whose refrain proclaims in French and English:
A Tout Le Monde (to everyone)
A tout mes amis (to all my friends)
Je vous aime (I love you)
Je dois partir (I must leave)
These are the last words
I'll ever speak
And they'll set me free
To a question posted on the website asking how Gill wanted to die, he wrote "like Romeo and Juliet or in a hail of bullets," La Presse reported.
Gill often raved about guns and against society. "Society disgusts me. It's the fault of everyone who does nothing unless it concerns them personally. (Expletive) you society," the newspaper quoted him as writing.
Delorme said on Wednesday there were no indications the shooting was an act of terrorism or motivated by racism. He said the gunman acted alone.
At midday Gill, wearing a black trench coat, entered Dawson College, an English-language university preparatory school in downtown Montreal, and went on a rampage that killed a woman and wounded 19 people. Police surrounded him on the scene and shot him dead, Delorme said.
Two of the 19 hit by gunfire were in extremely critical condition Thursday, a hospital doctor said.
"Six patients are in critical condition and two are in a very critical condition," said Tarek Razek, head of the traumatology department at Montreal General Hospital.
Eleven of the wounded -- six men and five women aged 17 to 48 -- were taken to the hospital, Razek said.
The shooting recalled the so-called Montreal Massacre on December 6, 1989, at Montreal's engineering school Ecole Polytechnique.
In that incident, a gunman, Marc Lepine, killed 14 female students before killing himself. And in August 1992 a professor at Concordia University in Montreal killed four colleagues.
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