I hope this sad and terrible event does not become a witch hunt.
Rampager's 'vampire' diary.
Thursday, September 14, 2006.
The online jounal of the lone gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a Canadian college yesterday has been unearthed. It contains images of 25-year-old Kimveer Gill holding a rifle and the words, 'Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime.'
Gill, who is believed to be the man who shot a young woman to death and wounded 19 other people, was the author of an online diary posted at the website vampirefreaks.com.
According to CBC News, he reportedly arrived at Dawson College dressed entirely in black, wearing a trench coat and carrying an automatic gun when he opened fire.
Of the 19 people injured, at least six were in critical condition this morning. Montreal police said the victims ranged in age from 17 to 48.
Police today identified the dead student as Anastasia De Souza, an 18-year-old woman from Montreal.
In his profile on vampirefreaks.com, a website devoted to Goths, Gill wrote of himself: ''You will come to know him as Trench,' and also described himself as 'not a people person.'
He says: 'Work sucks … School sucks … Life sucks … What else can I say?' he wrote. 'Metal and Goth kick ass. Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime.'
A photo gallery accompanying the profile includes pictures of Gill holding a Beretta CX4 Storm semi-automatic rifle.
In the last seven photos, he is wearing a black trench coat and holding the rifle. The caption below the last photo reads, 'Ready for Action.'
Dawson College, where the shooting occurred, is closed until Monday.
About 10,000 students attend the junior college.
THE DIARY.
The journal, written under the name fatality666 at the site vampirefreaks.com, looks chilling in retrospect. However, there is actually very little to distinguish it from the journals of thousands of others, none of whom are likely to kill people – it lists his favourite movies, bands, and video games, and is filled with the 'what X are you?' quizzes that are extremely popular in online journal communities.
Gill begins his profile on the site by writing about himself in the third person:
Work sucks... School sucks... Life sucks... Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime
'His name is Kimveer. You will come to know him as Trench. 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 handfull [sic] of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, kniving, betraying, lieing [sic], deceptive, motherf***ers.'
He then writes in big red letters: '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.'
The first quiz is the 'How f***ed up are you?' quiz, on which Gill is rated as 'WAIT THERE. We're coming to get you now. We've called the guys in white coats to come and get you, so don't commit a mass murder before they come or you'll find you'll be in there longer.'
If he was a Nirvana song, he would be You Know You're Right.
And the 'How will you die?' quiz produced the result: 'You scored as Suicide. Your death will be suicide. What more can I say? Fact: Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.'
He lists as among his favourite movies V For Vendetta, Heat, Edward Scissorhands, House of Wax and the final two Lord of the Rings movies (but not The Fellowship of the Ring). He also likes the Adam Sandler movie Little Nicky, about which he says 'I usually don't like comedys, but this movie f***ing rocks.'
One of his favourite video games is listed as 'Super Columbine Massacre RPG'. His favourite TV show was The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
His final journal entry was written on the morning of September 13 - just hours before he went on the rampage. It doesn't give any hint of what he was about to do.
Instead, it reads: 'Whiskey in the morning, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, good !! :)
'P.S. When i call people "niggah's" in my journals......it doesn't have anything to do with their skin color. I call white people niggahs too, it's just fun.
'It's all dave chappelle's fault, ever since i started watching the chappelle show, i can't stop calling people niggahs :('
It seems likely that the content of the website will lead once again to calls for the banning of violent video games, along with goth and metal music, trenchcoats, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
