Thursday, December 7,1989
The Battalion
Page 11
.one gunman storms university,
ingles out women, kills fourteen
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MONTREAL (AP) — A young rifleman in
vaded the University of Montreal engineering
ichool on Wednesday and singled out females
|br his targets, killing 14 women and wounding
[12 people before committing suicide, police said.
Montreal Police Director Claude St. Laurent
aid the killer, clad in a hunting outfit, rushed
nto a packed classroom on the second floor and
gelled in French, “You’re all a bunch of femi
nists!” before beginning his murderous rampage.
Witnesses said the man divided the students in
he classroom by sex and sent the men into the
;orridor before opening fire on the women.
Six women were shot dead in that room, and a
ieventh in another room. Then the man, carry-
ng what looked like a .22 caliber rifle, left in
icarch of more victims, St. Laurent said.
The gunman prowled the halls, killing three
women in the cafeteria and four more women in
he corridor of the third floor, where he then
hot himself.
One police officer called to the scene found his
daughter was among the dead.
St. Laurent at one point told reporters police
were looking for two accomplices but said later
he was mistaken and the man acted alone.
The injured, several in critical condition, were
taken to four hospitals.
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Frenzied parents rushed to the university and
were told to gather at a central location.
“I saw death close up and I shook,” said stu
dent Vanthona Ouy, 22.
Witnesses told police the gunman entered the
classroom at about 5:20 p.m. EST.
Students said the man emerged from the class
room, fired three or four shots at a group of peo
ple and ran up a flight of stairs.
“I saw the bodies of the people who were slain
— they were all women,” said Louis Courville, di
rector of the engineering school, his voice shak-
in s-
One student said a bullet passed his leg and he
brought his hands up in a pleading gesture. The
gunman left him alone.
“He was clearly gunning for the women,” the
student said.
“All I know is that a crazy guy came in here
and began shooting at anything that moved,” Do
minique Berube, 22, one of scores of terrified
students who ran from the building, said.
“It’s our friends who have been killed.”
She said some people threw themselves on the
floor while others stood paralyzed.
Some witnesses told police one of the gunmen
entered a classroom on the second floor of the
building at about 4:20 p.m. and divided the stu
dents by sex.
They said he ordered the men out of the class
room and then fired a number of rounds.
It was not clear how many women in the class-
-room may have been shot.
Students said the man emerged from the class
room, fired three or four shots at a group of peo
ple and ran up a flight of stairs.
Bordeleau told police he had to drag people by
the collar to keep them from going in the man’s
direction.
He said he heard 20 to 30 shots and the man
appeared to be aiming mainly at women.
“I heard the gunman say: T want the
women,’ ” Bordeleau said.
Several other witnesses confirmed that the |
gunman said that.
Student Eric Chavarie said, “And then when
we looked at him we thought it was a joke, but he
fired a shot in the air and separated us into two
groups, the guys in one corner and the girls in ,
(another) corner.
“When that was done he asked the guys to
leave, he left the girls in there. We got outside in
the hallway and for a couple of minutes he stayed
in there and when he got out, he leveled his gun
at a group of people who were there, and he shot
three or four shots.
Environmentalists tackle variety of issues
cuses on some groups’ activities and
goals.
The activities of environmental
— groups are as individual as their
Editor’s Note: This is the second members. But, as in Michelle Chase’s
n a three-part series on environ- case, individuals not affiliated with
nental groups. Today’s story fo- any group can be active with envi-
PART 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES
ogy major, said. When she receives
donation requests in the mail, she
said, she gives money to environ
mental groups she thinks make a dif-
ronmental issues, too.
“Basically I’m one of these awful ference.
people who read their junk mail,”
Chase, a Texas A&M senior psychol- See Environment/Page 12
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The following incidents were reported to the
University Police Department between Nov.27
and Dec. 1 :
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A student admitted to the incident two
weeks ago that killed grass on the MSC grounds.
He said he used table salt to spell out “UT #1, lo
ve.” He agreed to make restitution and charges
were not filfed.
• Graffiti stating, “A woman’s place is in the
university,” was found on the sidewalk by the
Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue.
• A window was broken on the southeast side
of the Systems Administration Building.
• A sliding glass window was broken in the
Academic Building.
• A car parked in Area 20 was scratched and a
glue-like substance was in the door and trunk
locks.
• A motorcycle was removed from Parking
Area 5 and found in a mall area near the Engi
neering Physics Building.
• A passenger’s window was broken out of a
car parked on Lewis Street.
• Someone attempted to enter G. Rollie White
Coliseum by breaking the locks with a pair of scis
sors.
• Entrance gates to Parking Area 34 on
Spence Street and Lamar Street were found to be
damaged.
ASSAULT:
• A student accused of tailgating a man as
they both traveled southbound on Bizzell Street
claimed that when he stopped at an intersection,
the man he alledgedly was following too closely
exited his vehicle and approached the student
yelling obscenities.
The man opened the driver’s door and pulled
the student out of the car, placing him in a head-
lock. The student was released after a passenger
in the accused’s car called for him to stop. No
complaint was filed.
PROHIBITED WEAPON:
• A homemade explosive device was found
outside an Aston Hall resident’s door. Two indi
viduals were seen running from the area.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Ten dollars was removed from a wallet in
Heldenfels Hall.
• One dollar, a 12th Man towel and an A&M
vs. Arkansas football ticket were stolen from a
purse at the Smith Tennis Center.
• A pink Minnie Princess child’s bicycle was
reported stolen from outside an apartment on
Front Street.
• Sixty dollars was removed from a wallet in
an office in the Academic Building.
• Five unattended backpacks were stolen
from the Commons Dining Area.
• A woman reported that $150 was removed
from her wallet in the Academic Building.
• A mathematics textbook was stolen from
Duncan Dining Hall.
• Textbooks were stolen from various loca
tions on campus.
• An unattended backpack was stolen from
underneath Mount Aggie.
• The front windshield, black front dressing
and gas tank were removed from a motorcycle
parked in Parking Area 30.
• An A&M ID card was removed from the re
ception desk at DeWare Field House.
• A seat was stolen off a bicycle parked on the
east side of Sterling C. Evans Library.
• Six bicycles were stolen on campus.
• A student reported that someone removed a
knee brace from a moped that was parked near
the Langford Architecture Building.
• Four corner posts and 11 line posts were re
moved from the Nutrition Field Laboratory
Complex.
• A traffic sign was stolen from Houston
St HARASSMENT:
• Students in Dorm 1 reported they have
been receiving annoying telephone calls from an
unknown individual who breathes heavily into
the receiver.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
• A woman in the Commons Lobby reported
that a group of males yelled an obcenity at her af
ter she had asked them to turn down the volume
of their music.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE:
• A purse was stolen from a car parked at
Pearce Pavilion.
® Someone tried unsuccessfully to remove a
stereo and speakers from a car parked in Parking
Area 60, but did succeed in stealing a radar de
tector.
® Someone removed a stereo, speakers and
headset tape player from a car parked in Parking
Area 20.
RECKLESS DAMAGE:
• Twenty-five feet of guardrail were damaged
on Fish Tank Road.
BURGLARY OF A BUILDING:
• Fifteen dollars was stolen from a file cabinet
in the Cotton Research Laboratory.
• A brass banker’s lamp and a glass coffee pot
were stolen from the Biological Sciences West
Building.
• Two vending machines on the first floor of
the Engineering Physics Building were found
damaged.
BURGLARY OF HABITATION:
• Students reported that someone ransacked
their room in Underwood Hall and stole $240, a
Visa credit card and a MasterCard credit card.
• Someone stole a gold chain and diamond
pendant necklace from a room in Underwood
Hall.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
• A man exposed his buttocks to a woman
from the second floor hallway window of Ramp
7, Law Hall.
POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY:
• A vehicle parked in Parking Area 5 was
found displaying a stolen TAMU parking permit
and was towed away until the owner was con
tacted.
• Two seperate incidents of students in pos
session of stolen TAMU parking permits were
reported.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED:
• A driver found to be intoxicated was jailed
and charged with DWI.
FELONY THEFT:
• A moped was stolen from the west side of
Heaton Hall.
• Nine rolls of wire were stolen from building
5A of the USDA Toxicology Complex.
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