Concordia University shooter dies in Quebec prison at 86

Valery Fabrikant, who killed four people and injured another during a 1992 shooting at Concordia University in Montreal, has died in a Quebec prison at age 86. Correctional Service Canada said he died on Saturday of apparent natural causes at Archambault Institution in SainteAnnedesPlaines, Que. Fabrikant had been serving a life sentence since 1993. According to the article, Fabrikant was a former Concordia mechanical engineering professor who opened fire in the university’s engineering building after facing dismissal and accusing colleagues of stealing his work. In 2020, the parole board refused his request for release, saying he still posed an undue risk to society.