Canada’s deadliest mass capturing: What is understood about Nova Scotia gunman, his motives & victims?

Extra fatalities have been confirmed within the Nova Scotia mass capturing, bringing the toll to 17, together with the gunman. Right here’s what we all know to date in regards to the sickening assault, now deemed the deadliest within the Canadian historical past.

• The rampage started round 11:30pm Saturday evening, when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to a “firearms grievance” in a rural city of Portapique and located an unspecified variety of casualties on the scene, however no suspect. Police declared an energetic shooter scenario and launched a manhunt, with armed officers patrolling the streets by way of the evening and helicopters becoming a member of the search within the morning.

• The lone suspect was recognized as Gabriel Wortman, 51, a part-time resident of Portapique who was additionally listed as a denturist within the metropolis of Dartmouth, close to Halifax

51-year-old Gabriel Wortman is the suspect in our energetic shooter investigation in #Portapique. There are a number of victims. He’s thought of armed & harmful. If you happen to see him, name 911. DO NOT strategy. He’s described as a white man, bald, 6’2-6’three with inexperienced eyes. pic.twitter.com/Y2nJNULlkn

— RCMP, Nova Scotia (@RCMPNS) April 19, 2020

• He made his automotive seem like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser and wore a police uniform, which signifies the assault wasn’t completely spontaneous.

• Whereas his preliminary motive stays unclear, authorities imagine the attacker knew and will have focused his first victims, however then started attacking full strangers randomly.

#Colchester: Gabriel Wortman could also be driving what seems to be an RCMP automobile & could also be carrying an RCMP uniform. There's 1 distinction btwn his automotive and our RCMP automobiles: the automotive #. The suspect's automotive is 28B11, behind rear passenger window. If you happen to see 28B11 name 911 instantly. pic.twitter.com/yyeOeBt8Ui

— RCMP, Nova Scotia (@RCMPNS) April 19, 2020

• The chase for the suspect, who modified automobiles at the least as soon as, went alongside one in every of Nova Scotia province’s busiest highways and ended close to a fuel station some 35 kilometers north of Halifax round midday Sunday.

• Following a gunfight with police, the gunman was “detained” however quickly proclaimed “deceased”, authorities stated sharing no additional particulars.

Police within the Canadian province of Nova Scotia arrested a 51-year-old gunman suspected of capturing a number of folks https://t.co/uw3x3oCBT1 pic.twitter.com/Ld3g47Vy3H

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 19, 2020

• Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of the RCMP and a mom of two, was killed responding to the energetic shooter incident, whereas one other RCMP officer is in hospital with non-life threatening accidents.

She performed rugby towards my sister in Nova Scotia the place everyone seems to be salt of the earth and related. She was a mother. She was an unimaginable officer. She is Heidi Stevenson. Pray for her household.? pic.twitter.com/Z7g3Wo2HzP

— Angie Poirier (@AngiePoirier) April 19, 2020

• At the very least 15 extra folks, in addition to the attacker and the officer, misplaced their lives, however their identities haven’t been instantly launched. One of many victims was informally recognized by her sister as Lisa McCully, an elementary faculty instructor and a volunteer on the Berwick bible camp.

• The Nova Scotia bloodbath has turn out to be the deadliest mass assault within the historical past of Canada, overshadowing the 1989 mass capturing at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique school, which led to tighter gun controls. Earlier authorities warned that there is likely to be much more victims because the investigation is ongoing and includes “a number of” crime scenes, some with “buildings on hearth.”

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