police Sources told the Toronto Sun that the death toll, currently – 18, can increase considerably, as Wortman set fire to the houses in its path. “There may be more victims, said a source. – There are burned homes that were not searched”. “We had five fires in homes, and we believe that those homes that burned to the ground, can be a victim,” said RCMP chief superintendent Chris Leather at a press conference in Dartmouth on Monday. Among the victims was publicly identified a police officer, two school leaders, an elementary school teacher Lisa mcculley, a nurse and three retired members of the same family.
the Killings began the night on Sunday when the assailant shot his ex-wife and her current boyfriend, said police sources. According to them, Wortman from childhood was obsessed with the Royal canadian mounted police. He was dressed in a form RCMP and transported in a police car, which was decommissioned but retained decals. Wortman, dressed as an officer of the RCMP, went into the house in the quiet rural town of Portapak, shooting people who lived in them, or stopped drivers before killing them, officials said. “They trusted him,” the source said of the victims of Wortman. One source, who has not seen Wortman for 10 months, told The Globe and Mail that a dentist came to his door with a rifle and a pistol, knocked on the inside, however, he looked at the intercom and decided not to open the door.
Wortman was set on fire several houses and cars, as well as his own house, reports The New York Post. Having overtaken the murderer in the chase, constable and veteran of the RCMP, Heidi Stevenson, in order to stop Wartman, crashed into his car. The offender, who was not injured, got out of his Chevrolet and shot the officer at close range, taking her gun and bullets.
the Assassin was finally cornered at a gas station in a nearby tiny town and had some time to shoot a rifle before were blown away in a hail of police bullets.
Recall that Wortman was the owner of the clinic installation of dentures and was considered an authority in this region. His clinic was closed for a period of isolation as “not mission critical enterprise”. Dental technician, accustomed to live in Grand style, Wortman had several residences in the province, including a huge white house in the coastal Porcupine, where staged a mass slaughter. The investigation finds out the financial position of Wortman, and how serious were the losses in the idle period his clinic at the time of isolation.
meanwhile, as noted by The Global and Mail, many commentators are wondering why the RCMP did not use the emergency alert system in this province, PRelegua the killer, who they knew was armed and extremely dangerous, and instead spread the information about it only in the Twitter.
In Canada, it is illegal to have an unregistered gun or any other weapon. In order to obtain the gun, anyone needs to take a course under the supervision of instructors, to provide a few references, including a document from the doctor about his mental health and a certificate from the police for the absence of a criminal record. After the massacre in the province of Nova Scotia, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau announced his intention to toughen the law on circulation of arms in the country.
