The man who opened fire on Montreal students liked to play an Internet role game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die "in a hail of gunfire."
Hours before the attack, Kimveer Gill, 25, posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling "postal" - slang meaning deranged or angry to the point of violence - and drinking whisky.
In the end, Gill - dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters - put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College.
Gill, wielding a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons, had wounded 20 people by the time he took his own life. One victim, Anastasia De Sousa, 18, later died. Four others remain in critical condition, one in a deep coma.
The Internet postings and neighbors' accounts reveal a solitary man who lived with his mother in Laval, near Montreal. He sported a mohawk haircut, dressed in black and was filled with hatred for athletes and high school students. He had worked for a carpet company and an auto parts business.
"Work sucks ... school sucks .... life sucks ... what else can I say? ... Life is a video game you've got to die sometime," he wrote in his profile for a Web site called vampirefreaks.com.
A woman who answered the phone at Gill's home said she was his mother and said: "Just ask anybody. Ask the neighbors. He was a good son,"
A neighbor across the street said he was a loner. "There were never any friends," said Louise Leykauf.
In postings on vampirefreaks.com, blogs in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting him in various poses holding a rifle or a knife and wearing a black trench coat.
One photo has a tombstone bearing his name and the epitaph: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."
He said on the site that he felt "crazy" and was drinking whisky the day of the shootings and described his mood as "postal" the night before. "His name is Trench. You will come to know him as the Angel of Death," Gill wrote at another point on his vampirefreaks profile. "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, conniving, betraying, lying, deceptive."
This inscription is below a picture of Gill aiming a gun at the camera: "I think I have an obbsetion (sic) with guns ... muahahaha."
"Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a picture of Gill grimacing.
Gill repeatedly said on his blogs that he loved black trench coats. He wore one during the shooting and opened fire in the cafeteria just as Columbine students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did in 1999.
He also maintained an online blog, similar to Klebold and Harris, devoted to Goth culture, heavy metal music such as Marilyn Manson, guns and journal entries expressing hatred against authority figures and "society."
He said he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre."
Gill also complained that a video shooting game, "Postal 2," was too childish. He wanted one that allowed him to kill more and go "beserk."
Witnesses said Gill started shooting outside the college, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word. Police said Gill was shot in the arm before he turned his gun on himself.
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.
You too can play a similar game
here
SOURCE 
Previous Topic
Index
