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The Globe citation clearly states a civilian was injured although it is unclear whether that was by Wortman or an accidental shooting or similar by police, "injuries to a civilian during the initial shootings and arson when the killings started around Mr. Wortman’s rural home in Portapique. One man who drove to the scene to help Saturday night had his vehicle fired upon – causing injuries that sent him to hospital. He was treated and released, but declined to talk about what happened."
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==Victims==
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Wortman killed 22<!--Do not change this number without providing a reliable source--> people, including Constable Heidi Stevenson. He shot another officer, who survived.<ref name="CBC10" /><ref name="CBC3" /><ref name="CBC" /><ref name="global-news-rcmp-active-shooter-portapique-n-s">{{Cite news|last=Quon|first=Alexander|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6838880/rcmp-active-shooter-portapique-n-s/|title=17 dead, including one RCMP officer, after shooting spree in Portapique, N.S.|date=April 19, 2020|access-date=April 19, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419202613/https://globalnews.ca/news/6838880/rcmp-active-shooter-portapique-n-s/|archive-date=April 19, 2020 |publisher=[[Global News]]|last2=Stephenson|first2=Mercedes}}</ref> Victims were found in the communities of Portapique, Wentworth, Debert, Shubenacadie/Milford, and Enfield.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52376547|title=Canada shooting: Death toll in Nova Scotia rises to 22|publisher=BBC News|date=April 21, 2020|accessdate=April 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422000411/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52376547|archive-date=April 22, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> The dead are believed to have died from gunshot wounds, but other causes are also being investigated.<ref name="CBC3" /><ref name="BBC" />
Wortman killed 22<!--Do not change this number without providing a reliable source--> people, including Constable Heidi Stevenson. He shot another officer, who survived.<ref name="CBC10" /><ref name="CBC3" /><ref name="CBC" /><ref name="global-news-rcmp-active-shooter-portapique-n-s">{{Cite news|last=Quon|first=Alexander|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6838880/rcmp-active-shooter-portapique-n-s/|title=17 dead, including one RCMP officer, after shooting spree in Portapique, N.S.|date=April 19, 2020|access-date=April 19, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419202613/https://globalnews.ca/news/6838880/rcmp-active-shooter-portapique-n-s/|archive-date=April 19, 2020 |publisher=[[Global News]]|last2=Stephenson|first2=Mercedes}}</ref> One other person was injured, during the initial shootings when he drove to the scene to provide assistance and was fired upon.<ref name=":5"/> Victims were found in the communities of Portapique, Wentworth, Debert, Shubenacadie/Milford, and Enfield.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52376547|title=Canada shooting: Death toll in Nova Scotia rises to 22|publisher=BBC News|date=April 21, 2020|accessdate=April 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422000411/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52376547|archive-date=April 22, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> The dead are believed to have died from gunshot wounds, but other causes are also being investigated.<ref name="CBC3" /><ref name="BBC" />


According to Commissioner [[Brenda Lucki]], some of Wortman's first victims were closely connected to him, but as he continued, those he attacked became more random.<ref name="nyt-nova-scotia-shooting-gabriel-wortman" /> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' reported that Wortman had created a list of people to target, although not all those on the list were attacked. The newspaper noted that one victim at the home in Wentworth had previously gone hunting with Wortman, while the [[CBC News|CBC]] reported that another victim owned the property in Portapique that was subject to a dispute between Wortman and his uncle.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Donkin|first=Karissa|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/portapique-property-dispute-1.5542739|title=Victim of N.S. mass shooting owned a property involved in dispute between suspect, his uncle|date=23 April 2020|work=CBC News|access-date=23 April 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
According to Commissioner [[Brenda Lucki]], some of Wortman's first victims were closely connected to him, but as he continued, those he attacked became more random.<ref name="nyt-nova-scotia-shooting-gabriel-wortman" /> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' reported that Wortman had created a list of people to target, although not all those on the list were attacked. The newspaper noted that one victim at the home in Wentworth had previously gone hunting with Wortman, while the [[CBC News|CBC]] reported that another victim owned the property in Portapique that was subject to a dispute between Wortman and his uncle.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Donkin|first=Karissa|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/portapique-property-dispute-1.5542739|title=Victim of N.S. mass shooting owned a property involved in dispute between suspect, his uncle|date=23 April 2020|work=CBC News|access-date=23 April 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

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Nova Scotia killings
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LocationNova Scotia, Canada
Date10:26 p.m., April 18, 2020 (2020-04-18T10:26 p.m.) –
11:26 a.m., April 19, 2020 (2020-04-19T11:26 a.m.) ADT (UTC−03:00)
Attack type
Spree shooting, mass murder,[1] arson
WeaponsFirearm(s)
Deaths23 (including the perpetrator)[2]
Injured1[3]
PerpetratorGabriel Wortman
MotiveUnknown (under investigation)

Over a thirteen-hour period spanning April 18–19, 2020, a killing spree took place at various locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Gabriel Wortman, a 51-year-old man, killed 22 people and set fire to five buildings before he was intercepted and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).[2][4]

It is the deadliest rampage in Canadian history, surpassing the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, during which 15 people were killed.[5] The RCMP has yet to establish a motive.[6][7]

Timeline

April 18

Beginning at around 10:26 p.m., several residents of the rural beachside community of Portapique, 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of Halifax, called 9-1-1 to report gunshots and several fires.[8][6][3][9][10][11] Citing unnamed investigators, several media outlets reported that the incident started as a case of domestic violence between Wortman and a current or former partner, and that many of the first victims had been at a house party.[12][13][14]

When RCMP officers arrived on the scene twelve minutes later, at around 10:38 p.m., three houses on Portapique Beach Road and Orchard Beach Drive were found burning.[15] They soon located thirteen victims who had reportedly been shot after fleeing the fires.[16] One of the first officers to respond to the scene reported by radio that they could not locate an armed suspect and that "it's very bad what's going on down here".[15][16][17][18]

Confusion persisted for hours over whether a suspect had been apprehended.[15] At 11:32 p.m., the RCMP posted a tweet asking residents of the area to stay inside with their doors locked and officers set up a search perimeter in the Portapique area. As the investigation developed overnight, they determined that the suspect had eluded them.[3] By the morning of April 19, they said they were dealing with an active shooter situation.[8][6][10][19]

April 19

At around 8:00 a.m., a 9-1-1 caller reported an explosion and gunfire at a house on Hunter Road in Wentworth, approximately 37 kilometres (23 mi) north of Portapique. The two residents were killed, as was a neighbour who went to render assistance. Another victim was then shot and killed while walking in the community of Wentworth Valley, on the road back south to Portapique.[4]

RCMP identified Gabriel Wortman as the suspect at 8:54 a.m., and at 10:17 warned that he was impersonating a police officer by wearing an RCMP uniform and driving a replica police vehicle.[10][20][21][22][23] Between 10:04 and 11:04 a.m., he was seen in or near the communities of Glenholme, Debert, Onslow, and Brookfield, indicating that he was travelling toward Halifax.[16][24] During this time, Wortman performed three traffic stops on random cars and killed their occupants.[12][18] At 10:54 a.m., surveillance video apparently captured Wortman pulling into a parking lot in Millbrook First Nation in the mock police vehicle, briefly getting out to put on a reflective vest, and then driving off.[25]

At approximately 11:15 a.m., RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson encountered Wortman oncoming on Route 2 in the community of Shubenacadie, and rammed her cruiser into his replica to stop it.[15][26][27] Witnesses reported that Wortman exited his vehicle and shot into Stevenson's, killing her and injuring another officer.[15][18][23] Both cars also caught fire, though accounts differ as to when and how.[15][23] Wortman then stole a silver Chevrolet Tracker SUV from a nearby motorist, and was next seen continuing south along Highway 102 through Milford at 11:24 a.m.[10][15][28]

Thirteen hours after police began pursuing him, at 11:26 a.m., Wortman was finally intercepted, shot, and killed by at least one officer at the Irving Big Stop service area in Enfield, 92 kilometres (57 mi) south of Portapique and 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Halifax.[15] His death was confirmed by police at 11:40 a.m.[1][10][20]

Victims

Wortman killed 22 people, including Constable Heidi Stevenson. He shot another officer, who survived.[2][8][23][29] One other person was injured, during the initial shootings when he drove to the scene to provide assistance and was fired upon.[18] Victims were found in the communities of Portapique, Wentworth, Debert, Shubenacadie/Milford, and Enfield.[9] The dead are believed to have died from gunshot wounds, but other causes are also being investigated.[8][28]

According to Commissioner Brenda Lucki, some of Wortman's first victims were closely connected to him, but as he continued, those he attacked became more random.[6] The Globe and Mail reported that Wortman had created a list of people to target, although not all those on the list were attacked. The newspaper noted that one victim at the home in Wentworth had previously gone hunting with Wortman, while the CBC reported that another victim owned the property in Portapique that was subject to a dispute between Wortman and his uncle.[18][30]

Perpetrator

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Workers removing signage from the perpetrator's denture clinic in Dartmouth on April 22

The RCMP identified the perpetrator as Gabriel Wortman, a 51-year-old denturist working in the Halifax area. He owned real estate in Portapique and Dartmouth.[23][31] He attended Riverview High School in New Brunswick and aspired to be a police officer, his yearbook entry alluding to this.[32] Acquaintances described him as a polite and house-proud man who often spent time at a seasonal home near Cobequid Bay.[33]

Wortman pleaded guilty to assault in 2002 and was sentenced to nine months of probation, in which he was prohibited from possessing weapons and ordered to undergo anger management counselling.[34][35] He was also involved in two civil matters regarding property disputes, according to interviews and public records. A former acquaintance described how, in 2004, Wortman offered to help him when he had financial difficulties and was about to lose his house, only for Wortman to discreetly take ownership of the home away from him, evict him, and sell the property. In 2015, Wortman had been temporarily loaned a Portapique home a paternal uncle had purchased while he was in the process of selling his Edmonton condominium. Wortman refused to release the Portapique property back to him, claiming he was owed money, until the uncle eventually sold it.[35][36]

Wortman had a hobby of buying law enforcement memorabilia and refurbishing old police cruisers. One person called his home a "shrine" for the RCMP.[37] He stored the two old police cruisers that he bought behind his denture clinic.[32][33]

Neighbours said Wortman struggled with alcohol use and his business was impacted by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Nova Scotia, which forced all non-essential dental services to cease.[37]

Following the killings, the decorative signage on Wortman's denture clinic in Dartmouth, portraying a large smile and a set of dentures, garnered complaints from the public. In response, Halifax Regional Police removed the signage on April 22.[38]

Investigations

Criminal

No motive has been established for the killings, though they are not considered an act of terrorism.[6]

Wortman's alleged list of targets was recovered from one of his properties. One person on the list, who was ultimately not a victim, had previously declined to sell Wortman a used police car.[18][39]

On the afternoon of April 20, Chief Superintendent Leather said there were 16 crime scenes, including five structure fires, over a distance of at least 50 kilometres (31 mi). He said he expected the death toll to rise as these crime scenes are investigated.[27]

Leather noted that Wortman's use of a police cruiser and wearing a police uniform allowed him to help evade detection for a long time. Owning police vehicles or uniforms is not a crime, but impersonating a police officer is.[40][41] Leather also said that Wortman had no licence to own guns and that his weapons were illegally purchased, which will be investigated further.[42][43]

Nova Scotia's Serious Incident Response Team announced it would conduct an investigation into the shooting of Wortman, as well as another incident involving two RCMP officers who discharged their weapons inside a fire hall in Onslow; Wortman was not there at the time.[18][23][44]

On the evening of April 21, the Canadian Armed Forces were dispatched to assist the RCMP in their investigation by providing them with additional personnel and supplies.[45]

The Nova Scotia RCMP Major Crime Unit launched a tip hotline to gather further information about the attacks.[46]

Lack of emergency alert

Following questions about why Nova Scotia did not use Alert Ready, Canada's emergency population warning system, to warn the public about the killings and instead used popular social media platforms Twitter and Facebook to provide updates, RCMP officials said they had been dealing with an unfolding situation and details kept being updated many times. However, the areas affected had poor cellular Internet service and were mostly populated by seniors who might not have used Twitter. Relatives of the victims pointed out that Alert Ready would have sent text messages advising residents of what was happening and to stay indoors, which could have saved lives.[47][48][49] Chief Superintendent Leather said an investigation would be conducted into the decision-making process on alerting the public.[50][51]

On April 22, Leather said officers in Dartmouth were asked by the province about a warning at 10:15 a.m., but did not agree on details like wording before Wortman died 71 minutes later.[34] The United States Consulate in Halifax said it emailed American citizens in Nova Scotia warning them of the situation using the RCMP's information.[47]

Reaction

Flags across Canada were lowered to half-mast,[52] and the House of Commons observed a moment of silence for the victims.[53]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his condolences.[23] During his morning address from Rideau Cottage on April 20, he reaffirmed his commitment to strengthening gun control.[54] He asked the media to not use Wortman's name or image: "Do not give this person the gift of infamy."[55]

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil told reporters, "This is one of the most senseless acts of violence in our province's history." He expressed his condolences to the residents affected and the families of the victims.[56]

Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, expressed her condolences, saying that she and Prince Philip were "saddened by the appalling events", and that her thoughts and prayers were with the people of Nova Scotia and all Canadians. She also paid tribute to the "bravery and sacrifice" of the RCMP and other emergency services.[57]

The White House condemned the killings and expressed US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump's condolences.[12]

On April 20, the CN Tower was illuminated in blue and white, the colours of the Nova Scotia flag, and also in RCMP red, blue, and gold in honour of Stevenson, on the quarter- and half-hours. On April 21, at Niagara Falls, both the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls were also illuminated in blue and white as a symbol of bi-national solidarity with Nova Scotia.[58]

In the days after the incident, many fundraisers for the victims and their families were started on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe.[59][60] There was also at least one fake or fraudulent fundraiser started, which was subsequently removed. Jeff Thomson of the RCMP's Anti-Fraud Centre warned Canadians to be diligent when donating to charities related to the tragedy.[60]

As large gatherings are restricted in the province due to the coronavirus pandemic, a public virtual vigil is scheduled to air on CBC Atlantic on April 24 at 7:00 p.m. ADT.[61][62]

See also

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