Canada gunman kills more than 17 in country's worst act of mass murder in 30 years
Police added that Wortman was dead, but would not confirm a CTV report that he had been shot and killed by the RCMP.
A gunman in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia killed more than 17 people, including a policewoman, during a 12-hour rampage, authorities said on Sunday (April 19), in the worst act of mass murder the country has seen in 30 years.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman - who had disguised his car to look like a police cruiser - shot people in several locations across the Atlantic province. Authorities said they were still trying to establish a final death toll.
Police added that Wortman was dead, but would not confirm a CTV report that he had been shot and killed by the RCMP.
"Today is a devastating day for Nova Scotia, and it will remain etched in the minds for many years to come," Lee Bergerman, commanding officer of the RCMP in Nova Scotia, told reporters. The slain policewoman was an RCMP officer.
The massacre looked to be the worst of its kind since a gunman killed 15 women in Montreal in December 1989. A man driving a van deliberately ran over and killed 10 people in Toronto in April 2018.
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