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Twenty people wounded in shootings at Montreal’s Dawson College:

Now Montreal police are saying that there was only one gunman at the Dawson College shooting but are still being tight-lipped with other details…

MONTREAL (CP) – An armed man dressed in black and sporting a Mohawk haircut entered a Montreal college on Wednesday and went on a shooting rampage, wounding 20 people and causing widespread panic.

Montreal police Chief Yvan Delorme said the gunman died and that the 20 injured included three people in serious condition. Police said there was only one gunman. Earlier unconfirmed reports indicated there may have been several suspects.

“For now, I am limiting it to one suspect who died after a police intervention on site,” Delorme told a news conference.

He did not say whether the man killed himself or was shot by police.

Asked whether all the victims were female, Delorme said he did not know the gender of the victims.

He also dismissed suggestions that race or terrorism played a role.

“There’s no information that leads us to believe that it’s something other than what happened at the scene.”

I assume the Canadian reporters were asking about the gender of the victims because of what every article has mentioned so far, the shooting spree of Marc Lepine at École Polytechnique.

Shortly after 5 p.m., Lépine entered the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal. He had applied for admission into the engineering school but was rejected. He blamed it on affirmative action which kept him out in place of a woman. He first went into a mechanical engineering class, separated the men from the women, forced out the men at gunpoint, began to scream about how he hated feminists, and then opened fire. Lépine continued his rampage in other parts of the building, opening fire on other women he encountered. He killed 14 women (13 students and one employee of the university) and injured thirteen others before committing suicide.

I don’t think this is a copycat of that. Just something deep in my soul tells me this is a Columbine copycat.

I hope I’m wrong.

4 reported dead in shootings:

MONTREAL — Up to three gunmen dressed in black army fatigues opened fire at a downtown Montreal college today and four people are reported dead, including two of the gunmen.

Police said in mid-afternoon that although many people had been injured, 12 were admitted to hospital and six are listed as critical. The others had been treated and discharged.

The French-language RDI Television network reported that one gunman had turned his weapon on himself and committed suicide, while a second had been shot and killed by police.

This could not be confirmed.

“A suspect has been neutralized, which means he is not shooting any more,” said Ian LaFreniere, a police spokesman.

Montreal police said they believed there were between one and three suspects. A police SWAT team was going floor-by-floor through the college building.

This is eerily similar to the conflicting reports that came out of Columbine as it was unfolding.

2 gunmen dead after Montreal college shooting:

Two gunmen who opened fire in a downtown Montreal college Wednesday afternoon are dead, and police are hunting for a third suspect.

Montreal General Hospital officials say 12 people have been admitted, six of them in critical condition, two in serious condition and the rest in stable condition.

Montreal police confirmed that at least one suspect was “neutralized,” but did not provide details on how the gunman died.

“Whether he did it to himself or not, I can’t yet say,” said spokesman Yan Lafrenière.

Television images showed police officers dragging a bloody body out of the main doors of the building.

Eyewitnesses say they saw a tall skinny man, wearing a black trench coat and a Mohawk haircut, walk into the cafeteria carrying a large gun. He apparently fired several shots.

Other reports are saying that the alleged second gunman was in camouflage. More on this as details become available.

Thanks to Badge and Harding.