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Robert
POULIN
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Rape - School shooting
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders:
October 27,
1975
Date of birth: 1957
Victims profile: Kimberly Rabot (female, 17) / Mark
Potvin (male, 18 - He was hit by gunfire when he heroically
tried to kick the door shut)
Method of murder: Stabbing
with knife
- Shooting
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Status: Committed suicide by shooting himself the same day
Robert Poulin,
an 18-year-old militia sharpshooter, shoots six people at Ottawa's Saint
Pius X school and then kills himself. One wounded student dies just over
a month later. Poulin had killed a girl at a youth home before he went
to the school.
The St. Pius X High
School shooting was a
school shooting that occurred on
October 27,
1975, at
St. Pius X High School in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada.
Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student,
opened fire on his classmates with a
shotgun killing one and wounding five before turning
the gun on himself and committing
suicide.
Poulin had
raped and stabbed his 17-year-old friend
Kim Rabot to death and set fire to her body in his
basement bedroom, prior to the incident. A book
entitled Rape of a Normal Mind was written about
the incident.
Further
reading
Cobb, Christopher and Avery, Bob.
(1977). Rape of a Normal Mind. Toronto:
Paperjacks. ISBN 0-7701-0025-2
