Michael Slobodian
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- Canada
- Location
- Brampton, Ontario, Canada
- Date of birth
- 1959
- Age at first offence
- 16
- Characteristics
- juvenile (16), school shooting
- Victim profile
- John Slinger, 17 (fellow classmate) / Margaret E. Wright, 25 (art teacher)
- Method of murder
- Shooting
- Date(s) of murder
- May 28, 1975
- Years active
- 1975
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
-
Died in custody
Committed suicide by shooting himself the same day.
Case overview
Michael Slobodian committed suicide by shooting himself on the same day as the Brampton Centennial Secondary School massacre, which was a school shooting.
Timeline
- Wednesday, May 28, 1975 — Michael Slobodian opened fire at Brampton Centennial Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, in the boy's washroom, killing classmate John Slinger, then opened fire again, killing English teacher Margaret Wright and wounding 13 other students; Slobodian committed suicide in one of the school's hallways.
The offence
On Wednesday, May 28, 1975, Michael Slobodian opened fire in the boy's washroom. Slobodian killed fellow classmate John Slinger in the boy's washroom. Slobodian then killed English teacher Margaret Wright in the art classroom and wounded 13 other students.
Aftermath
This shooting incident led to tough gun laws in Canada. Previously, anyone could walk into a store and buy a firearm. In the days following the shootings at Centennial Secondary School in Brampton, thousands of names were penned to petitions calling on the federal government for better gun control.
The day after the shootings, Ontario Premier William Davis asked his attorney-general John Clement to meet federal Justice Minister Otto Lang and Solicitor General Warren Allmand to review stringent amendments to the Criminal code. William Davis had a 15-year-old daughter, Cathy Davis, attending the school, but she was not injured.
Pat and Berwick Slinger, the parents of John Slinger, put aside their grief following the death of their son John, who was said to be probably Slobodian's only friend, and testified at the subsequent inquest, calling for gun control rules. The Slingers took the petitions to Ottawa, meeting with Allmand, who, in 1995, chaired the committee reviewing Justice Minister Allan Rock's firearms registration legislation, which proposed laws intended to make access to weapons more difficult. The proposals were recommended for legislation and passed.
Witnesses and related people
Scott Thompson, future Kids in the Hall star, was a classmate and acquaintance of Slobodian and was another witness of the shooting.
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