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On August 24, 1992, the hallways of the ninth floor of the Hall building at Concordia University were chaos as engineering professor Valery Fabrikant, angered by thoughts of conspiracy and intellectual theft, took one of four shotguns from his briefcase and chased his colleagues, killing three people, injured another and took two people hostage. A fourth professor died a month later in hospital.
At 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 24, Fabrikant was out to settle some unfinished business. He walked into his office where he was to meet with Michael Hogben and shot him three times with his .38-calibre pistol fired at short range into his head, throat and back. Hogben’s colleague, Aaron Jaan Saber, called from across the hall, worried. Fabrikant crossed the hallway and shot him twice, once in the head and once in the side.
Police charged Valery Fabrikant, a 52- year-old Soviet-trained associate professor of engineering with impressive credentials and a long history of aberrant behavior, with murdering Douglass and Hogben, and with the attempted murder of Saber, who died the next day.
None of the professors murdered had been initial targets for Fabrikant—rather, they had been victims of his terrible rage against the university. Fabrikant was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole until 2014.
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