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The whole time, I was thinking ‘stay calm.'” Lu turned to see a tall, black trenchcoat-clad man with slicked-back hair and heavy black boots about 40 feet away. “His face was calm and expressionless,” said Lu, 34\. “He was looking forwardat the school and walking slowly.” Lu sat frozen long enough to notice the man carried a one-and-a-half-foot machine gun while moving along a low brick wall that led to the college’s main entrance. Lu and LeBleu abandoned their lunch and sped away. Lu dialled 911 at exactly 12:45\. Panic descended on the sprawling campus, which serves 10,000 students, as the gunman randomly shot at students near the entrance atrium and the adjoining cafeteria. The lunch-hour shooting spree at Dawson left one woman dead and 20 wounded before police officers fatally shot 25-year-old gunman Kimveer Gill, of Fabreville, north of Montreal. Anastasia Desousa, 18, of Montreal, was pronounced dead at the scene, although police would not confirm her identity. Police said Gill’s car was found parked near Dawson. Investigators have ruled out terrorism and racial or gender targeting, and are searching for a motive in what seems to be developing into Canada’s Columbine shooting. “It was over in 30 minutes,” said Quebec Provincial Police spokesman Jayson Gauthier. Paramedics transported the wounded to three downtown hospitals. ” They are all young adults, in their early twenties,” said Dr. Françoise Chagnon, director of professional services at the Montreal General Hospital. “All of them are alive.” But six remain in critical condition, two in very critical condition. The question of ‘why’ loomed largely among the hundreds of students who fled the shooting yesterday. But Gill’s blog paints a chilling portrait of a violent young man, harkening images of the teen killers who gunned down their 12 classmates and wounded 27 others and killing themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999\. Gill’s profile on the eerie web site VampireFreaks.com displayed 50 photos of himself brandishing a machine gun and signing off as the “Angel of Death.” On that site, Gill claims that his favorite video game was the home-made Super Columbine Massacre, the Canadian Press reported. The last of his six journal entries was posted at 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, precisely two hours before the first 911 call reporting an armed man at Dawson was made, according to CP reports. But blogs in Gill’s name posted to a website called VampireFreaks.com said he liked to play the Internet-based video game “Super Columbine Massacre,” which simulates the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Col. It also shows at least 50 photos of him holding a rifle, and donning a black trench coat and combat boots, the same as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris during the Littleton, Col., incident. The rampage was a painful reminder to a city that has seen two similar college gun attacks, in 1989 when Marc Lépine killed 14 female engineering students before taking his own life at École Polytechnique, and in 1992 when former Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant killed four of his colleagues. Fabrikant is serving a jail sentence of 25 years without parole. But Gill faced a police force trained to deal with gunmen like Fabrikant and Lépine. Police Chief Yvan Delorme told reporters at a press conference last night that the 1989 massacre prompted a swift rewrite of police protocol for apprehending armed suspects. “Until 1989, police would stay on the perimeter and wait for the SWAT team,” Delorme said. “Because of the Polytechnique, they are trained to act fast. Their job was to save people’s lives.” Indeed, it was lightning speed that helped to quickly “stop the problem,” Delorme said. Emergency services received the first call at 12:41 and police were dispatched. Within minutes, operators fielded more than 400 more 911-calls reporting gunfire. But two officers investigating an unrelated drug crime nearby serendipitously spotted the gunman and followed him into the college, Delorme said. More officers arrived three minutes later and the force deployed more than 100 officers, SWAT teams and canine units, who cordoned off surrounding blocks and secured the building. Inside the building, a fierce gun battle left the suspect with fatal multiple gunshot wounds. The shooter was found with three firearms, including one automatic gun, Delorme said. Television footage showed police dragging the apparently lifeless suspect out of the building onto the bloodied street in front of Dawson. Shortly afterwards, a yellow sheet was place on top of the body, which remained in its place long past nightfall, as a grisly vision after the carnage that occurred yards away. Because a municipal police officer was involved in the shooter’s death, the provincial police will investigate. Dawson College will examine ways to beef up its security, said its director general Richard Filion. The school may reopen as early as Monday. “We’ll make a thorough assessment to make sure this will not happen again,” Filion said. “I don’t want to have to lock our doors or make Dawsonlike a fortress. We are about education. First we have to understand why this is happening in society.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the massacre “a cowardly and senseless act of violence.” Montreal Mayor Gérard Tremblay said it was “a tragic incident, but an isolated incident.” “It’s too much,” said Dawson student Galadrielle Major, 23\. “If this happens in Canada, we have a serious problem. Mr. Harper has to do something. It’s not normal for a person who’s that young to have access to guns. It’s not normal.” The questions of access to automatic weapons and tighter gun control were raised in 1989\. 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