MONTREAL - "Work sucks ... School sucks ... Life sucks," wrote Dawson College shooter Kimveer Gill on his blog.
He might have hated the world, preferring the dark goth subculture, guns and violence, but Kimveer Gill, 25, drove a Pontiac Sunbird and lived with his parents and twin siblings in the kind of house you'd find in many tree-lined neighbourhoods.
Today, the raised white brick bungalow on a corner lot in Laval is ringed with reporters and photographers. A lone police cruiser sits in the driveway behind a red minivan.
Just 24 hours earlier, Gill apparently filed his last blog posting, then headed out the door to make the roughly 20-minute drive to downtown Montreal and Dawson College.
In the compact car were three firearms.
Property records show that Gurinder Gill and Parvinder Sandhu bought the house for 136,000 in 1988. Louise Leykuf, who lives across the street, remembers them moving in.
She didn't know a lot about the family, not even the parents names.
"They seemed to be ordinary people who did their own thing." But she formed an impression of the young man, whom she would occassionally see raking leaves.
"He looked a little strange," she said from her doorstep. "But then, there are a lot of strange people."
