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The Montreal Massacre was different. Lépine had a specific target: women. He blamed them for his own failures. His suicide note listed other women he'd set in his sights: a politician, a union leader, Quebec's first female firefighter and police captain, among others. He'd settled for easier targets – the young women at Université de Montréal's engineering school, who had the audacity to study for careers that still today are the domain of men. In 20 minutes, he shot or stabbed 27 people, mostly women, before shooting himself. Fourteen of his victims died. All of them were women.