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January 10, 2007
Canadian University Evacuates After Report of Gunman on the Campus
With memories fresh of a shootout on one Montreal campus, another university in the city with bitter recollections of a more deadly attack went on a full-scale alert on Tuesday after someone in a camouflage shirt was reported entering a building carrying what looked like a firearm. According to the Canadian Press, the campus of Concordia University was evacuated and surrounded by 50 police vehicles. But it was all a false alarm. The student just happened to be wearing a camouflage shirt, and his weapon was a martial-arts stick. It was found in his locker.
The university was on edge just four months after a shooting incident at nearby Dawson College that left two dead and 19 injured. In 1992 an engineering professor at Concordia shot to death four colleagues after learning that he would not be granted tenure, for which he had already been turned down three times.
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