OTTAWA: The death toll from a weekend killing spree in Canada's Nova Scotia province has risen to 23, police said on Tuesday , after remains were found in burnt out homes and vehicles.
A firefighter douses hotspots near destroyed vehicles linked to Sunday's deadly shooting rampage in Wentworth Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada. The gunman, identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, launched his rampage late Saturday in the seaside village of Portapique.He died about 14 hours later after being shot by police at a gas station outside Halifax, 100km away.
Nurse Kristen Beaton was killed while working, according to a GoFundMe set up in her name. Beaton's husband, Nick, told CTV News he warned his wife about the presence of an active shooter just before she was killed."We never got the chance to tell family," he said."We were going to tell them this week, she was going on vacation."
In an update on their investigation, police said Wortman wore an"authentic police uniform" during the shootings but that the vehicle he drove from town to town was a"replica" police car, both of which aided his easy movement during his 13-hour spree. Royal Canadian Mounted Police members pack up after the search for Gabriel Wortman in Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada April 19, 2020. REUTERS/John MorrisBringing in stricter gun control measures was an election promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals in the October 2019 federal election, and he told reporters on Tuesday the legislation had been"almost ready to go" when the COVID-19 crisis hit.
this is so sad