Valery Fabrikant, 1992 Concordia shooter, dies in prison at 86
The former engineering professor who killed four colleagues in an August 1992 attack died Saturday at Archambault Institution, where he had been serving a life sentence since 1993.
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Valery Fabrikant, the former Concordia University professor who opened fire in the engineering department building in August 1992, killing four colleagues, died Saturday at Archambault Institution in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines. He was 86. Correctional Service Canada announced his death Sunday, saying he died of apparent natural causes.
Fabrikant had been serving a life sentence since June 8, 1993. On August 24, 1992, he shot and killed three professors — Matthew McCartney Douglass (civil engineering), Michael Gorden Hogben (chemistry), and Aaron Jaan Saber (mechanical engineering) — and fatally wounded electrical and computer engineering department head Phoivos Ziogas, who died a month later. A secretary, Elizabeth Horwood, was injured.
Fabrikant had been facing dismissal as an associate professor and accused colleagues of stealing his work. Two commissions of inquiry followed the massacre. In 2020, the Parole Board of Canada denied his release, concluding he posed an undue risk to society and noting that after 28 years in prison, he still did not acknowledge attacking innocent people.
