Kimveer Gill, the man identified by the Quebec police as the gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a junior college here on Wednesday, was an avid blogger who posed aiming a semiautomatic rifle for his online photo album and used a Web site to post violent and often crude entries.
Gill killed one young woman and injured 19 other students at Dawson College here on Wednesday. His body was also found at the scene and preliminary autopsy results on Thursday indicated that he killed himself with a shot to the head.
Late on Thursday afternoon, Tarek Razek, the chief of the trauma unit at Montreal General Hospital, which is within sight of the college, said the number of victims in critical condition had fallen from six to four.
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Earlier in the day, Razek said: "We fear for the lives of some of the patients."
Montreal police on Thursday identified the woman who died as Anastasia De Souza, 18, a business student from the Montreal area.
Gill, 25, lived with his parents in a middle-class suburb north of the city. But in the online world, he wrote that his epitaph would read: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."
His remarks were found on www.VampireFreaks.com, which is registered to an address in Brooklyn, New York.
On Thursday, direct access to Gill's postings was cut off. Jayson Gauthier, a spokesman for the provincial police force, said that an American police force had imposed the shutdown after a request from Canada.
Gill's blog entries under the screen name Fatality 666 deal with rejection by women and employers and talk about his fondness for whiskey mixed, action-film stars, violent computer games (including one based on the Columbine school shootings in Colorado) and heavy metal music.
But several entries offer chilling revenge fantasies, often involving killers dressed in black.
"Vengeance is coming," he wrote on Dec. 23. "A light drizzle will be starting up. The clouds will be grey, so grey. Just the way I like it. Disemboweled bodies litter the streets. Some have been decapitated, others hung off bridges and overpasses."
The last blog entries were written hours before he began firing randomly at students and exchanging gunfire with the police.
At 3:33am, one of Gill's last entires said: "As you can tell, I got nothing of importance to write about today. Poor me."
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