This First Person article is the experience of Laurie Fagan, a former CBC Ottawa reporter who was a student at St. Pius X the day of a school shooting in 1975. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ .
WARNING: This story discusses school violence, sexual assault and suicide.
He killed two people, wounded several others and left the rest of us scarred with wounds hard to heal.
I was 15 and in Grade 11, sitting in a nearby classroom. I remember the sound of broken glass, shouts of “shooter on the loose” a nd everyone running in panic, some with blood on their clothes.
Fagan was in Grade 11 at St. Pius X when a shooter began firing into a nearby classroom. (Submitted by Laurie Fagan)
The awful tragedy happened years ago — long over but not yet ended for me and so many others.
This is the nature of trauma, I suppose: buried, but s omehow still alive.
In October 1975, Robert Poulin, an-18-year-old student, lured another student, 17-year-old Kim Rabot, to his basement bedroom where he raped and murdered her, then set his room on fire.
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