Editing Robert Poulin (section)

== October 27th 1975 ==

At 8:15am Robert Poulin had lured Kimberley 'Kim' Rabot, a long-time crush, to his home telling her he "had to show her something" and assuring her  he would give her lift to school.<ref name=":3">https://todayinottawashistory.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/the-pius-x-high-school-tragedy/</ref> Leading her down into his basement, Robert then attacked. He handcuffed Kim to his bed, raped and sodomized her before stabbing her fourteen times and suffocating her with plastic bag he placed over head during the assault.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Shockingly, while Kim Rabot was unconscious or dead, Robert's mother Mary came down to the basement and spoke to Robert. She asked if she could talk to him, and from behind his privacy curtain he said “Yeah, but don’t come in.” She told Robert she had to run some errands. <ref name=":0" /> An hour later Robert would emerge from the basement and eat a peanut butter sandwich and watch television blankly. 

After killing his former crush, Robert laid a trail of ''Playboy'' magazines throughout the basement and doused them with gasoline in accordance with his plan.<ref name=":1" /> Mary left at 11:30am to return two hours later to see smoke billowing from an upstairs window.<ref name=":2" /> Firefighters battling the blaze would discover the charred body of semi-clad body of Kim Rabot cuffed to Robert's bed.<ref name=":1" />

At 2:30pm, Robert had arrived to St. Pius X Catholic High armed with a sawn-off 2200 Winchester pump-action shotgun. Robert walked to classroom 71  where a religious studies class was in session, he calmly took out the shotgun from his duffle bag then kicked in the door.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Grinning wickedly, Robert fired at the class of seventy-eight students while they scrambled for cover and safety. Poulin then backed out of the classroom. In the hallway, he put the shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger, killing himself instantly. The entire shooting lasted ten seconds.<ref name=":1" />

One student, Mark Hough, died fives weeks after the shooting due to his injuries.<ref name=":1" />