MONTREAL — The night before Wednesday's deadly shooting rampage at a downtown college here, Kimveer Gill, 25, wrote on his blog that he was drinking whiskey and listening to heavy-metal music. He lamented that he had nothing special to write about.
Hours later, after a little sleep and a breakfast of eggs, toast and more whiskey, Gill headed to Dawson College, police said, armed with an AK-47, a semiautomatic rifle and a handgun.
At 12:41 p.m., Gill opened fire, killing Anastasia DeSousa, 18, and wounding at least 19 others. Four of the victims remained in critical condition Thursday, three in extremely critical condition and one in a coma, hospital officials said.
Police shot Gill in the arm, and he lifted a gun to his head and fired one last time.
The picture that emerged Thursday of the mohawk-wearing gunman, from his journal on a Goth website called vampirefreaks.com, offered a portrait of a disaffected young man consumed by hate, rejection and a desire to "die in a hail of gunfire."
Gill seemed to have modeled his rampage on the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, even wearing a black trench coat and boots like the Columbine shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris.
Gill's online name was "fatality666," and he introduced himself in the third person, writing: "His name is Trench. You will come to know him as the Angel of Death."
He posted more than 50 photos, some showing him wearing a black trench coat and hoisting a semiautomatic weapon. In another picture, he aimed a gun at the camera, with a caption reading, "I think I have an obbsetion [sic] with guns muahahaha."
His blog, written over nine months, provided an instant history of his fixations: Columbine, video games, and high school slights and crushes.
His favorite video games included "Postal," in which the player goes on a shooting spree. He was a Canadian whose parents emigrated from India, and he lived with his mother in Laval, a suburb of Montreal.
The blog gave a glimpse of his predicted end: an image of a tombstone with his name on it and an epitaph: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."
Police spokesman Chantal Mackels confirmed the shooter's name and said he was born in Canada.
As provincial police investigated the shooting, and college officials scrambled to clean up bloodstained floors and provide counseling to students, people in Montreal sought to make sense of the attack.
