Canadian police on Thursday worked to piece together the timeline of a shooting spree that started in a rural hamlet in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia and ended 13 hours later when the gunman, who killed 22 people, was shot dead.
The makeshift memorial that has been placed in the memory of Kristen Beaton, who was expecting her third child and was killed along Plains Road during Sunday’s mass shooting is seen in Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Tim Krochak“Anything you know – no matter how small or insignificant it might seem – could help us piece the puzzle together,” Darren Campbell of the Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police , said in a statement.
Investigators are now analyzing 16 crime scenes and trying to plot Wortman’s movements overnight and during his flight the following morning. Police have yet to determine the gunman’s motive. On Wednesday, the RCMP faced criticism for poor communication with the public to alert them that an active gunman was on the loose.
And during the pursuit on Sunday morning, police officers shot at a firehouse where people who left their homes due to the gunman’s rampage had taken refuge. It is not clear why the shots were fired, according to a provincial civilian police watchdog, because the suspect was not in the area.
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