"The campus, like, totally died," said Jason Bertram, third-year anatomy student. "Nobody was doing anything...

"I thought it was terrifying," said Paris Saucier, 51, a mature student at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton. "We're in a similar kind of institution and someone could walk in at any moment and do the same thing here."

"Normally you don't think that something like that could happen. Normally I feel safe," said [Tobi Knapp]. "Probably now I will think more about it, but I don't have a solution."