Many of you have been asking why I chose not to speak the preferred name of the shooter in these episodes.

Many mass shooters commit these acts to gain some sort of fame, notoriety and recognition.

By not sensationalizing their name, it shifts the focus from the shooter and removing that notoriety as a motivational factor

might actually prevent future mass shootings.

To find out more, you can visit www.com.

Don't Name Them.org.

This is Christy and you're listening to Canadian True Crime, Episode 29,

The Eco Polytechnic Massacre, Part 2.

Just a quick content warning.

This episode launches straight into the massacre and how it unfolded.

I know this is highly sensitive to many of you and you may not be up to listening to this right now.

If you would like to skip over to the aftermath, I've put a timestamp in the show notes and on my website that you can fast forward to.

On December 6, 1989, the weather in Montreal was heading towards winter.

Although the day wasn't as cold as usual, it was still just below freezing,

with freezing rain pelting down. At around 4 o'clock p.m., the shooter left his apartment,

dressed in new work boots, jeans, a grey windbreaker with the picture of a skull wearing glasses on it,

and his trademark baseball cap,

today's was a white one that had a tractor in Montreal on it. He had a hunting knife at his waist

inside the windbreaker, and his Sturm-Rouja Mini-14-223-caliber semi-automatic rifle shoved into a green garbage bag.

He walked to the small car he had rented earlier in the day and merged in with traffic in the freezing drizzle.

He drove to the yellow building of the Ecol Polytechnique at the top of the hill, paid $5 to the

parking attendant, and then parked the car in a no parking zone.

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