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13-09-2006, 01:56 PM
Shots fired at Dawson College in Montreal
Updated Wed. Sep. 13 2006 1:52 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
There are reports that shots have been fired at a downtown Montreal college, and between two and six people have been shot.
CTV's Jed Kahane, reporting from Montreal, said only preliminary reports have been released, and police received a call about the shooting at just before 1 p.m. ET.
Kahane said reports coming in over the police scanner say shots are still being fired and there may be as many as four gunmen involved. Dawson College is located at the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal.
"I'm just hearing a witness now speaking saying that she was in the college and she saw someone coming down the stairwell with a gun," Kahane told CTV Newsnet.
"They ran back into their classroom and closed the door. The person was apparently chasing someone, and they heard, in her words, at least 20 shots fired, and they stayed inside their classroom until they felt they could get out safely."
A number of officers surrounded the school with guns drawn, while others helped to evacuate students who are still hiding inside the English-language CEGEP school which houses about 10,000 students.
One student told radio station 940 News she saw two people who had been shot, including one who had been hit in the neck.
The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.
"According to the police one suspect has been neutralized, although we don't know what that means," Kahane said.
Images captured from a helicopter hovering over the scene showed hordes of students running frantically from the building.
"Many people are crying as they are coming out, worried about who might still be inside the building and shocked by what happened," said CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin, reporting from the scene.
A number of police vehicles surrounded what appeared to be a bloodsoaked sidewalk outside the school, and several yellow ambulance vehicles were seen speeding from the scene after victims were carried from the building on stretchers and loaded in the vehicles.
There were early, unconfirmed reports that the gunman was a 20-year-old male, Kahane said.
All classes at Dawson College have been cancelled.
Updated Wed. Sep. 13 2006 1:52 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
There are reports that shots have been fired at a downtown Montreal college, and between two and six people have been shot.
CTV's Jed Kahane, reporting from Montreal, said only preliminary reports have been released, and police received a call about the shooting at just before 1 p.m. ET.
Kahane said reports coming in over the police scanner say shots are still being fired and there may be as many as four gunmen involved. Dawson College is located at the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal.
"I'm just hearing a witness now speaking saying that she was in the college and she saw someone coming down the stairwell with a gun," Kahane told CTV Newsnet.
"They ran back into their classroom and closed the door. The person was apparently chasing someone, and they heard, in her words, at least 20 shots fired, and they stayed inside their classroom until they felt they could get out safely."
A number of officers surrounded the school with guns drawn, while others helped to evacuate students who are still hiding inside the English-language CEGEP school which houses about 10,000 students.
One student told radio station 940 News she saw two people who had been shot, including one who had been hit in the neck.
The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.
"According to the police one suspect has been neutralized, although we don't know what that means," Kahane said.
Images captured from a helicopter hovering over the scene showed hordes of students running frantically from the building.
"Many people are crying as they are coming out, worried about who might still be inside the building and shocked by what happened," said CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin, reporting from the scene.
A number of police vehicles surrounded what appeared to be a bloodsoaked sidewalk outside the school, and several yellow ambulance vehicles were seen speeding from the scene after victims were carried from the building on stretchers and loaded in the vehicles.
There were early, unconfirmed reports that the gunman was a 20-year-old male, Kahane said.
All classes at Dawson College have been cancelled.