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From Reuters, here's something that may or may not give a clue to the identity of a gunman in Montreal:

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a downtown Montreal college on Wednesday and at least four people were taken away by ambulance, television networks said.

The incident happened at Dawson College in central Montreal, which is attended by around 10,000 students.

Television pictures showed students fleeing from the campus and a pool of blood on the front steps of the college.

CTV said one eyewitness spoke of up to 20 shots being fired while another said the shooting had taken place in the college's cafeteria.

In December 1989 a gunman shot and killed 14 young women in Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, before turning the gun on himself.

What they don't mention here is that the gunman who murdered 14 women those 17 years ago was an Algerian, and most likely a Muslim too. Is it possible that the gunman in this situation was of a similar background, and was acting out of similar motivations?

Update: here's a fuller story on the horrifying incident, in which one student, tragically a female one, was murdered:

MONTREAL (AP) - A young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a Montreal college, slaying a woman and wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said.

Unfortunately, the police as usual do something that seems to have become the norm these days:

Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack at downtown Dawson College, where scores of panicked students fled into the streets after the shooting began. Some had clothes stained with blood; others cried and clung to each other. Two nearby shopping centers and a daycare center also were evacuated and subway service was disrupted.

Let's be clear here: in order to prevent violent crimes like these from happening, that's why hard questions such as if this was an act of terrorism cannot be avoided.