As of Wednesday, 23 people, including denturist Gabriel Wortman 51, were confirmed to have been killed in Canada’s worst-ever mass shooting. The gunman acted alone.
RCMP continues to investigate the weekend mass shooting by gunman Wortman while a series of official communications about the rampage have raised questions about effectiveness and clarity surrounding the incident.
These include the use of social media to let the public know about the gunman, rather than the province’s central alert system; misinformation on Wortman’s physical status, and that took a long time into Sunday afternoon, long after he was dead; and confusion over just how many weekend incidents have been referred to an independent police watchdog.
Chased to a gas service station in Enfield, Nova Scotia, after leaving a trail of chaos across 16 separate situations, Wortman was gunned down by RCMP officers.
Lives lost in this tragedy involve nurses, teacher, Mountie, couples, and retirees.