THE heavy-metal music fan who went on a murderous rampage at a Montreal college wrote his own epitaph before he died in a shoot-out with police.

Kimveer Gill, 25, posted a photograph of a tombstone on his online blog with the legend: “Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse.”

In another entry, he described how he would like to die: “Like Romeo and Juliet — or in a hail of gunfire.”

Gill was identified yesterday as the man wearing a black trenchcoat who killed Anastasia DeSousa, an 18-year-old student, and wounded 19 people in a lunch-hour shooting spree on Wednesday at Dawson College in the centre of the Canadian city. Four of the victims were in critical condition in hospital last night.

Dressed in black, the gunman began shooting smokers gathered outside the college of 10,000 students at 12.41pm.

Witnesses said that then he walked calmly into the building and started firing on students eating lunch in the atrium.

The carnage could have been worse but for some police officers who were already on the scene writing up notes about a small drug seizure.

The gunman, who was said to have been armed with a 9mm semi-automatic rifle, a .45 pistol and a 12-bore gun capable of holding four rounds at a time, hid behind a vending machine as he exchanged fire with police, shouting at them: “Get back! Get back!” Police said that Gill shot himself in the head after taking a bullet to the arm. Officers dragged his bloody body outside to the street.

Gill’s black Pontiac Sunfire car was found near by. Police searched the home that he shared with his mother in Laval, north of Montreal.

A woman who said that she was his mother described him as a good man. “Just ask anybody. Ask the neighbours. He was a good son,” she said, refusing to give her name.

The woman said that police took Gill’s computer. “I don’t know what they found in the computer. They took everything,” she said.

Gill’s blog on the “Goth” website vampirefreaks.com provided a chilling insight into his obsession with guns and death.

He wrote that he was 6ft 1in (1.85m), was born in Montreal of Indian heritage and that his goal for this year was to stay alive.

“His name is Trench. You will come to know him as the Angel of Death,” he wrote. “He is not a people person. He has met a handfull of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, kniving, betraying, lieing, deceptive, motherf*****s.”

“Work sucks . . . school sucks . . . life sucks . . . what else can I say?” he wrote. “Metal and Goth kick ass. Life is a video game, you’ve got to die sometime.”

The photo gallery, containing more than fifty images, showed him posing with a Beretta Cx4 Storm semiautomatic rifle and donning a long black trenchcoat and combat boots.

His favourite video games included Postal, in which the player goes on a shooting killing spree, and Super Columbine Massacre, about the infamous 1999 Columbine school shooting in Colorado.

His “likes” listed in the blog’s questionnaire included “goth girls, goth everything, Germany, my knife, blood, rain, ravens, crows, fire, destroying my enemies, semi-automatic handguns, combat shotguns, assault rifles and the Grim Reaper”.

The last post in the blog, time-stamped 10.41am, says: “Whiskey in the morning, mmmmmm,mmmmmmmmm, good !! :).”

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