Parents Of Dawson College Killer Speak Out

[greg...@yahoo.ca]

Gill family struggling to come to terms with son's terrible act
Sun Dec 24, 1:07 PM
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/061224/national/year_college_shooting_gill&printer=1
(Comments in brackets are my own.)

By Dene Moore

MONTREAL (CP) - Parwinder Kaur Gill misses her son. (I'm sure his
victims loved ones are missing them as well.)

Her voice cracks as she tries to explain that she loved the young man
now notorious for the terrifying shooting rampage at Dawson College
last September.

She loves him still, in fact, and can't understand what led him to
commit such a terrible act.

"It's hard," she said in a recent interview. "Everybody's still
suffering."

Kimveer Gill was living in the basement of his parents' home in Laval,
Que., just north of Montreal, when he went on the rampage.

His parents and younger twin brothers had no idea of the anger that
seethed beneath the surface but Gill documented his own mental
deterioration in an online diary.

"Anger and hatred simmers within me," he wrote in a posting on
VampireFreaks.com, under the name "fatality666."

He posted photos of himself brandishing his Beretta CX4 Storm
semi-automatic rifle and wrote that he'd like to "die in a hail of
gunfire."

Parwinder Kaur Gill knew her son had guns. He was a regular visitor to
the local gun club and had a brief stint in the Canadian military in
1999. He was found unsuitable for the military and didn't complete
basic training.

Gill was unemployed at the time of the shooting.

His mother had no idea about the violent threats he'd made online or
the video games he liked to play that simulated just the kind of
massacre he tried to commit. She didn't know of his obsession with the
1999 school shooting at Columbine in Colorado. (She and his Dad
obviously weren't interested in forcing the bum to get a job or to find
a wife.)

To his mother, 25-year-old Gill was the quiet and obedient boy he'd
always been.

"Those who knew him before, they're all so surprised because his
character was not like that," she said. "He wouldn't hurt anybody. He
was a different person, a very good person and that's why we are in so
much shock, everybody, all his friends and the people he used to work
with." (Why didn't he get another job and why did he leave his old one?
Why didn't his parents get him involved with charity work? What did
they think he was doing on the computer all the time in the basement
downloading porn?)

She loved her son, her "first born, a bundle of joy," and today
struggles to come to terms with what happened.

The Gills have been provided counselling through police services.
Parwinder Kaur Gill said the community has been supportive and seems to
understand that they, too, lost a child.

"I hope everyone understands and I think most people know that he was
not a bad person and he became sad, or depressed, for some reason I
don't know yet," she said. (Lots of sad and depressed ppl in this
world. The vast majority don't go into schools and shoot everyone in
sight. A number of survivors are now active in the gun control lobby.
Mrs Gill has stated that she is in support of gun control. If she and
her husband bought the weapons for their son why aren't they being
sued? The killer Gill wore a trench coat and combat boots frequently
and was into firearms and these parents claim to have had no inkling?
What a bunch of idiots)

[edi...@netpath.net]

gregpc...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> Mrs Gill has stated that she is in support of gun control. If she and
> her husband bought the weapons for their son why aren't they being
> sued?

Under Canada's antigun laws, can one adult legally buy guns for
another adult? Mom might have suspected something by the fact she
didn't just give him the money as a gift - and tell him to buy whatever
gun or anything else he wanted - as it suggests she knew he couldn't
pass whatever background check was required.

No $4 to park! No $6 admission! http://www.INTERNET-GUN-SHOW.com

[mylife...@gmail.com]

Greg,

Question for you, due to your comments--do you honestly expect that his
mother, who loved him all of his life and gave birth to him, would
suddenly stop loving him because of what he did? Maybe she does not
condone his actions, which I am sure she does not, but does that mean
one days she loves him and the next she should not? Get real. Parents
generally love their children regardless of what they do. Does not
mean supporting those actions, some even are supportive of their child
actually paying the price for their actions, but that does not mean
they love them any less. It is actually offensive to hear people infer
or even outright say that a parent should no longer love their child.
How would you feel if your parents suddenly decided not to love you
because of somehting you did that other people may not like (and, no I
am most definitely not making light of what Gill did as I am a
supporter of the death penalty--and I also have a brother in prison for
attempted murder, and support the fact that he is there and paying for
what he did, but I still do love him and care about him)

[edi...@netpath.net]

mylife...@gmail.com wrote:
> Question for you, due to your comments--do you honestly expect that his
> mother, who loved him all of his life and gave birth to him, would
> suddenly stop loving him because of what he did? Maybe she does not
> condone his actions, which I am sure she does not, but does that mean
> one days she loves him and the next she should not?

At least in America, parents are famously in denial when it comes to
the criminal acts or general misbehavior of their kids - and very
strongly protest to any school administrator, teacher, police officer,
or judicial authority who says otherwise. Does anyone really believe
Canada is that different - bordering America, in America's broadcast
market, and with widespread cross-border travel and even relatives on
both sides of border?

[Marlene Blanshay]

edi...@netpath.net wrote:
> gregpc...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> Mrs Gill has stated that she is in support of gun control. If she and
>> her husband bought the weapons for their son why aren't they being
>> sued?
>
> Under Canada's antigun laws, can one adult legally buy guns for
> another adult? Mom might have suspected something by the fact she
> didn't just give him the money as a gift - and tell him to buy whatever
> gun or anything else he wanted - as it suggests she knew he couldn't
> pass whatever background check was required.

if anything the parents sound rather clueless. It's not as common in
canada for kids to want to buy guns, and if my kids wanted to I think
I'd be a bit more curious about it. Didn't they notice any signs of
anything? The kid was living under their roof. I feel bad for them, even
if I kind of want to smack them and yell WAKE UP!

[multigl...@gmail.com]

I'm very sad to hear about the loss of lives in this article. While its very heartbreaking that lives are lost, it's a bitter fact and bitter truth that when a child isn't constantly supervised by their parent (with a regular communication), or is mistreated at school and is made t feel isolated through racist environment around him, this could easily lead him into a depression and a major isolation. There are many ways of dealing with depression - if an adult isn't able to talk the young person through his depression and loneliness, he can do extreme things to himself or to others, just to let himself out of it. He cannot be blamed for this because he's not in the eight mind and cannot think rationally. Other the other had, I can believe very well that his parents had no inkling of what he was going through because most Indian parents don't have any communitions with their children. They let them be on their own. And this young man was all alone, living in the basement, being bullied by all these people all the time. And he had a strong desire to work in the army and be a Canadian soldier. His desires never got fulfilled and on top of that, he was deteriorating due to his depression, caused by bullying and attacks from others at school. Hi Keya. Please check the group messages. Every Sikh Punjabi child is always taught at home to be kind to others, to treat all mankind equally, to help the needy and feed the hungry..to respect all, so was Kimveer Gill. But he was caught in unfortunate circumstances of a crazy environment of being bullyied by others which made him take his life and life of one other. I'm very sorry other other person died because of this. This mother, too, lost her son. But child bullying is a major issue which every school must stress on. They must teach kids to respect each other. This issue is even happening today,in private schools too. AND IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED. RIP

[multigl...@gmail.com]