UPDATE: (CBC) – RCMP is reporting 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia in one of the deadliest killing sprees in Canadian history.
Police said Sunday night the suspected shooter, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was killed after being intercepted by officers in Enfield, N.S. Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year member of the force and mother of two, was identified as the officer killed. A male officer suffered non-life threatening injuries. Lisa McCully, a teacher at Debert Elementary, was also killed in the attack, according to a news release from the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
“Our hearts are heavy with grief and sadness today as we have lost one of our own,” said Brian Sauve, president of the union representing RCMP officers. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told CBC News Sunday evening the death toll stood at 16, plus the shooter, which surpasses the 14 victims killed in the 1989 Polytechnique massacre in Montreal. RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather earlier told an evening news conference that “in excess of 10 people” had been killed.” READ MORE
