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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Nova Scotia Shooting: Shock and Surprise at Killings by Denturist


Sharing by Rahul Sharma from Manchester UK,






Residents in Nova Scotia are struggling for answers after a lone shooter killed 16 people, including a police officer, in the deadliest rampage in modern Canadian history.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Sunday that Gabriel Wortman, a 51-year-old denturist, had been taken into custody but was later pronounced dead following a standoff at a gas station near the capital of Halifax.

It was not clear how Wortman died but police later issued a statement saying that Nova Scotia’s serious incident response team said it was investigating an event in which RCMP officers “discharg[ed] their firearms” at a suspect.

According to property records, Wortman owned and operated a denture clinic in the city of Dartmouth, across the water from Halifax. In 2014, he appeared in local media after donating dentures to a cancer survivor.

Neighbours of Wortman, who owned three properties in Portapique, a small coastal community where the rampage appears to have begun on Saturday night, were shocked by the news.

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