Concordia University massacre

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Fabrikant taken to a hospital because of chest pain.

The Concordia University massacre was a school shooting that occurred on August 24, 1992 at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by the gunman Dr. Valery Fabrikant who was a former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University and murdered four of his colleagues.

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A contempt of court charge and a threat of being killed in jail culminated in a shooting rampage on August 24, 1992 on the ninth floor of the Henry F. Hall building at Concordia. Killed in the shooting spree were Departmental Chair Phoivos Ziogas and Professors Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogben, and Jaan Saber. A departmental staff secretary, Elizabeth Horwood, was injured. Fabrikant believes that these killings were justified and that anyone else faced with a similar situation would have followed his actions. Fabrikant writes on his website: "I hope to be remembered as a person who had enough courage to fight lawlessness with deadly force and I hope to encourage others to do the same."

Four large granite study tables in the foyer of the Hall Building were placed as a memorial to the slain professors. A wall plaque near them commemorates the shootings.

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Dr. Fabrikant's Solution, extensive article by Morris Wolfe, based on earlier articles by Wolfe in Saturday Night and Lingua Franca
The Fabrikant Affair, from Concordia University's online archives
Fabrikant's publications, Google Scholar search for the publications of V.I. Fabrikant
Opening statement to the jury for his trial on May 20, 1993.