By David Lohr

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September 18, 2006

Montreal, Canada (Crime Library) -- On Monday September 18, 2006, thousands of Montreal students, many wearing pink ribbons as a tribute to Anastasia DeSousa, returned to Dawson College to retrieve items they dropped during last week's shooting.  When school officials unlocked the doors, students and staff cleared thousands of flowers, knickknacks, cards and other tributes piled against the door.  As the first group of students began filing through the main doors teachers and onlookers broke out in applause.  Emily Foucault, 17, told reporters from CTV Montreal the symbolic gesture was all about students taking back the school.  "I stood right where the killer was," Foucault said. "I tried to make sense of it but I still don't understand."  In the atrium where Kimveer Gill opened fire, students lined up to sign memorial boards.  During interviews with the media some students said they were having trouble dealing with the tragedy, while others expressed a desire to get on with their lives and regain a sense of normalcy.

Kimveer Gill

          Meanwhile, several new facts have emerged about Gill.  According to a spokesperson for the Canadian National Defense, Gill was briefly a member in the armed forces during the late 1990s, however he never completed the training.  National Defense has not yet revealed the reason for his departure.

Valery Fabrikant

          There has also been confirmation that Gill was a member of a local gun club, Club de Tir de Ville St-Pierre, where he practiced shooting on a regular basis.  Interestingly, it is the same club where notorious mass murderer Valery Fabrikant trained before killing four people at Concordia University in 1992.

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