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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