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The Perpetrator of the Concordia University Massacre Has Died in Prison
Correctional Service Canada said Fabrikant died of apparent natural causes after serving 33 years of a life sentence for killing four Concordia professors.
- Valery Fabrikant, who killed four people at Concordia University in 1992, died Saturday at the Archambault Institution, where he had been incarcerated for over three decades.
- On August 24, 1992, Fabrikant opened fire at Concordia University, killing professors Michael Hogben, Matthew Douglass, Aaron Jaan Saber, and Phoivos Ziogas.
- Facing dismissal as an associate professor, Fabrikant claimed during legal proceedings he had been "provoked" into shooting his colleagues after accusing them of stealing his work.
- Serving a life sentence since June 8, 1993, Fabrikant faced multiple parole denials; the Canadian Parole Board noted his refusal to acknowledge targeting innocent people.
- Correctional Service Canada stated Fabrikant died of "apparent natural causes" at age 86. The 1992 tragedy prompted two commissions of inquiry addressed by John Scott Cowan of the University of Ottawa in his 1994 report.
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