Nova Scotia mass killer had said he was celebrating an anniversary on the day shooting rampage began
The day started off with plans for a drive to celebrate his anniversary; it ended with his neighbours dead and houses in flames.
Court documents released Monday indicate that the shooter in
Canada’s worst mass killing intended to go on a drive on April 18 — presumably with his common-law wife — ‘to celebrate their anniversary.’
But that evening would take a devastating turn, as the killer began a rampage that lasted 13 hours, beginning with an assault on his common-law partner.
By the time it was over, Gabriel Wortman — driving a replica RCMP car and wearing a Mountie uniform — had killed 22 people over
April 18-19, beginning in Portapique and continuing through Colchester County in northern Nova Scotia before being shot and killed by police in Enfield, some 100 kilometres away.
This was rather odd.
RCMP officers shot at fire hall filled with people fleeing N.S. gunman: watchdog
Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating why two RCMP officers started shooting at a fire hall while a killer disguised as a Mountie was on the loose.
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HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating why two RCMP officers started shooting at a fire hall while a killer disguised as a Mountie was on the loose.
Pat Curran, interim director of the Serious Incident Response Team, says the officers fired their weapons around 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Onslow-Belmont Fire Hall, near Truro.
Curran says it's unclear why the officers opened fire, because the suspect was believed to be elsewhere.
The fire hall is about a half-hour drive from the tiny village of Portapique, where the assailant began shooting people and burning homes around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade wrote on Facebook that the hall was being used as refuge for evacuees from around Portapique Beach Road when the building was pelted by bullets.
The Facebook post, which has since been taken down, says the gunfire caused considerable damage to the fire hall but no one was injured.
The brigade, which declined a request for comment, wrote Wednesday that the deleted post was meant to clarify Sunday's events and not fuel “conspiracy theories” about the shooter.
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Cop informant..aka patsy
New evidence including a video of the killer raises questions about his activities prior to the Portapique shooting and RCMP transparency around the case
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