Overview
- Correctional Service Canada said on Sunday that Fabrikant died of apparent natural causes at the Archambault Institution in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines at age 86.
- Fabrikant was the gunman who killed four professors and wounded a secretary in Concordia University’s Harry F. Hall Building on Aug. 24, 1992, and had been serving a life sentence since his 1993 conviction.
- He repeatedly sought parole and sentence reductions but faced denials including a 2020 Parole Board decision that said he would pose an undue risk and still did not accept that he targeted innocents.
- In custody Fabrikant remained litigious and published online writings, was declared a vexatious litigant for abusive court filings, and kept contesting his case through appeals.
- The 1992 massacre led Concordia to change human-resources and security policies and the news of his death revives broader Canadian debates about campus safety and gun regulation.