In what will be remembered as one of the worst mass shootings in recent Canadian history (though the country is certainly no stranger to terroristic attacks), more than 10 people are dead, including an RCMP officer and the suspect, after an attack that continued over the course of several hours as police pursued the suspect across the province.
More than 10 people are dead, including an RCMP officer and the suspect, after a mass shooting incident in Nova Scotia.
The RCMP provided an update during a news conference in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Sunday evening, releasing precious few details about a rampage that carried on across the province, with people apparently killed by the shooter in multiple locations.
“Today is a devastating day for Nova Scotia and it will remain etched in the minds of many for years to come,” said commanding RCMP officer Lee Bergman.
The shooter was identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman. His motives remain unclear.
Wortman was killed by police outside the Irving gas station and Big Stop restaurant in Enfield Nova Scotia, roughly 25 miles from downtown Halifax.
The story of how the incident unfolded is long and convoluted (at least, that’s the way it was told by several local TV news stations), but here’s the gist, as far as we understand it. Remember, many details about the incident have yet to be released. The situation officially began late Saturday evening when officers responded to a firearms complaint in Portapique, a small town about 80 miles north of Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia.
In a tweet sent overnight, police confirmed they were in the middle of an “active shooter situation” and asked residents to remain in their homes with their doors locked. Police said this stage of the incident involved “several victims”, but no figures were listed. There is no word on their identities or how many people may have been killed or injured. Investigators first released the suspect’s identity before 9 am Sunday. They said Wortman was considered armed and dangerous and warned that he should not be approached.
Around 10 am, police warned that Wortman was traveling on Highway 4 near Hidden Hilltop Campground in Glenholme and urged residents to avoid the area and lock their doors. A short time later, police said that Wortman might be driving what appeared to be an RCMP vehicle and wearing an RCMP uniform – though he is not an RCMP officer.
Wortman continue to travel across the province Sunday morning, with police warning at 10:21 am that he had been spotted in the Debert area. At 11:04 am, police said Wortman had been last seen traveling south on Highway 102 from the Brookfield area in the vehicle shown above. At 11:24 am, police said that Wortman was now driving a silver Chevrolet Tracker and had been spotted in Milford NS.
A short time later, they tweeted that he was “in custody” – though apparently he had already been mortally wounded at that point.
Watch a clip from a press conference held by local police officials after the scene was finally brought under control:
Police confirmed that Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of the Nova Scotia RCMP, died Sunday morning while responding to the active shooter incident. A male RCMP officer was also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. His identity has not been released.
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…but Canada has a lot of common sense gun laws.
TBP
Please copy the video
Gabriel Wortman (Nova Scotia shooter) eyewitness videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bdR5VwJBk
Looked like two completely different places. One was at the edge of a roadway the other was the middle of a gas station. One had a car on fire the other showed no fire.
More than one incident?
Apparently yes. He managed to kill at least 16 people on his 100km trip. Was finally killed at the gas station.
On April 4th The Government of Nova Scotia sent out a text warning everyone in NOva Scotia to stay the Blazes home and shelter in place. All because of the dangerous COVID virus that is on loose and killing indiscriminately. Fast forward to April 18th and a lunatic goes on a rampage killing 13, was on the loose for almost 12 hours, and it’s crickets.
I didn’t find out about this until 6 o’clock tonight..
Rins.
I read about it earlier and was wondering if it was near you.
It was close enough.
This is second hand but I have been told that this was a revenge killing. My wife is good friends with a teacher on same area and apparently this all started because the killer had broken up with a women. The woman had taken a new boy friend. This guy went to where she lived because everyone is forced to shelter in place and shot her and her botfriend. He then proceeded for whatever reason to do what he did..
The death toll now stands at 17.
What pisses me off is the Premier of Province made a point this morning of letting everyone know that he didn’t find out until breakfast that there was an active shooter on the loose.
This guy has a FUCKEN NEWS CONFERENCE EVERY DAY ABOUT LATEST GERIATRIC dying from COVID and doesn’t have staff concerned enuf to bother him about a lunatic running loose killling random people in province..
Stephen MacNeil should resign…
He sez
“I never imagined when I went to bed last night that I would wake up to the horrific news that an active shooter was on the loose in Nova Scotia,” McNeil said in Halifax.
The fucktard needs to resign or fire everyone on his staff
The boss of a province with 1 million people didn’t get a call from the fuzz till breakfast? Doubtful.
That is exactly what happened.. The Boss even admitted as much.. although the fucken cunt still hasn’t owned up to it on twatter..
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/shooting-one-of-the-most-senseless-acts-of-violence-in-nova-scotia-s-history-premier-1.4902917
Robbie, I saw this today, thought it interesting, and then when they got to Odin, I thought that you might enjoy.
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/04/over-in-norway-there-is-ancient.html
Rob, just glad to hear you and yours are okay. What a nut job.
That’s because he wasn’t supposed to do this until April 19th. He was a day early. It messed everything up so they just buried it I suppose.
Bad guy with a gun on a shooting spree. Limited guns with the populace. Body count in the high teens before a good guy with a gun stops the madness.
Sounds like gun laws need to be amended and more people have guns for self protection.
tsquarded you know absolutely shit about squat. There are guns everywhere here, especially in the countryside with just the ones that the government knows about. There are shit tonnes of guns that the authorities haven’t a clue. What was needed here was a FUCKEN government do a better job letting folks know that this lunatic was running around the countryside.
Most folks around here didn’t find out until 6 pm tonight. Granted we are 100 miles from where this guy was doing his thing, as far as we all know. But the problem is we don’t know. THis guy was on the loose for near 12 hours.
This started, from rumours I’m hearing, before midnight last night, as a domestic with this guy killing an ex and new beau. Then he sets three houses on fire. Seems unlikely that the killer just went home and slept it off. Moar likely he just roamed the countryside killing people in their homes, as folks slept, sheltered in place, as told to do by the Government right now.
Its a damn shame that Premier didn’t have a staff that prepped him on this event even half as well as has been done with the COVID….
And the guns are hidden and locked away or this asshat would have been stopped earlier.
Yeah the ones the government knows about..
rins & all you guys to the north of us,
not that it will make you feel any better but our thoughts & prayers are with you.
unfortunately,b/c your politicians are as evil & opportunistic as ours down here you better immediately gird your loins & prepare 4 battle,you can expect new gun law proposals —
get ready to fight–
Been fighting for years. Things are weird here right now beyond that. Trudeau has ‘isolated’ himself in his cottage alone for the better part of a month. Refuses to reconvene Parliament. He’s tried to seize power twice while nobody was looking. Shut down both times. Second time he could have done it via emergency measures act but the premiers told him to get stuffed. He listened, not sure why because he didn’t have to. He’s gone back into hiding ever since. We effectively have no government right now. He is waiting for something. Both him and his cabinet give the impression they are afraid. It’s not ‘normal’. I have no idea what is going to happen next. It’s fucking strange.
Exactly this FM. Trudeau is hiding out at the cottage, when there’s no apparent reason for him to be doing so. It is f*cking strange.
this is off topic but when i saw the headline i assumed that it would be about a muslim terrorist attack–
a couple of weeks ago at a pilot truck stop in knoxville,a muzzie stabbed 3 waitresses to death b4 local cops killed him–
i didn’t see it anywhere except on alternative news sites–
Red.
And nobody even lifted a finger. Hit him with a chair? No cooks or dishwashers coming out with a meat cleaver? Nobody threw a pot of coffee in his face? He would have had to eat my O2 bottle and worry about breathing later. We are in sad shape when a Truck stop hasn’t got a single man in it.
I got your back you old flea ridden dog…
Just don’t give me mouth to mouth. Let me die with my dignity. EC and Red would hound me about it in the hereafter.
no mouth to mouth,nkit said he’s got your back but ec & i are flipping a .25 for 2nds–
I really didn’t want to envision that, Flea…You can die Bubba….
Somebody downvoted a joke? This joint is getting too PC.
flea,
to be accurate i said waitresses but the articles all said employees & w/the corona lockdown the restaurant might not even have been open–
however,your premise is correct,it seems like there would have been a guy in the vicinity who could have picked up something to hit him with–
17 dead.
Dude built a replica RCMP cruiser and dressed like a member of the force to pull this off in a sparsely populated area where residents were on lock down. Building a replica cruiser would be considered ‘impersonating an officer’. Would have taken months. How he did this without anyone noticing is a mystery to me.
Cra Cra…
There is probably a body shop supply outfit where you can order all the various decals. You can buy a Ford with the police interceptor package, new or used. They auction all the old cars here and they come with the spotlight and antennas left on. Easier than we may like to think.
The Canadian response to Astroturf Weekend in the United States.
The “End the Lockdown” and “Gridlock” protests this weekend are turning out to be coordinated, sponsored, pre-planned events in the U.S.
Potentially sponsored by the “good guys” calling for the liberation of Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia, among others.
The Red Communist sponsored Democrats are in meltdown mode and some (D) governors will be on the recall ballot soon. Any bad news and any distraction now serves the enemy from here on out, and as usual the timing of events is just mind-boggling.
Shitty Guardian link; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12325761
Anyone notice the date when this happened. Granted it started just before midnight but not by much.
https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2020/04/19/active-shooter-injured-several-victims-nova-scotia-rcmp-say.html
Their narrative has too many holes in it.
Nobody makes a replica police car and goes on a mass murder spree because they have the sadz about an ex-girlfriend. This feels like they are trying to manufacture the motive in real time.
Cue for the white supremacist manifesto in three…two…one…
And why is a mother of two a cop in the first place? Are all the men at war or something?
It does have holes in it.
Just like Waco and Oklahoma..
Here’s more
http://archive.is/QpKxo
We all know what happened here!
Trump has secured America so the deep state had to go north
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWCCcGsWkAI3noP?format=jpg&name=large
With Trudeau’s blessings
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoRprPRWsAA4y_K?format=jpg&name=large
Thank you for posting this Angel! I am sending it to friends!