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Nova Scotia shooting

March 2023

  • Flags of Nova Scotia and Canada fly at half-staff outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Dartmouth in 2020

    Nova Scotia attacks: police heavily criticised for failures in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting

    RCMP response condemned after gunman drove a fake police car around for more than 13 hours, evading capture and killing 22 people

July 2020

  • Canadian Press, HALIFAX, Canada - 27 Jul 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (10724430b) Protesters gather in Halifax’s Victoria Park to demand a public inquiry into the deadly mass shootings that claimed 22 lives in Nova Scotia last April, on Monday, July 27, 2020. The federal and provincial governments have announced a review of the massacre that will not be able to compel witnesses or testimony, no power to subpoena evidence and won’t be able to make binding recommendations to the government. Canadian Press, HALIFAX, Canada - 27 Jul 2020

    Women's groups demand public inquiry of Nova Scotia shooting to expose police failures

    Activists say police ignored gunman’s record of violence and domestic abuse as government plans a closed-door review

June 2020

  • Mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 20 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (10619558a) The Atlantic Denture Clinic is guarded by police in Dartmouth, N.S.. The business is owned by alleged killer Gabriel Wortman. Police say 17 people are dead, including RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson, after a man went on a murder spree in several Nova Scotia communities. Wortman, 51, was shot and killed by police. Mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 20 Apr 2020

    Nova Scotia gunman was paranoid survivalist – but not informer, say police

    Gabriel Wortman frantically stockpiled supplies amid coronavirus fears but had no ‘special relationship’ with RCMP

May 2020

  • Members of law enforcement take part in a motorcade to honor the RCMP officer Heidi Stevenson, who was killed in the Nova Scotia shooting.

    Nova Scotia police under scrutiny as new details of shooting response revealed

  • Aftermath of mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 26 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (10625765e) People pay their respects at a roadside memorial in Portapique, N.S.. A man went on a murder rampage in Portapique and several other Nova Scotia communities killing 22 people. Aftermath of mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 26 Apr 2020

    Nova Scotia shooting: ex-neighbours say they warned police about gunman

  • Aftermath of mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 26 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (10625765d) People pay their respects at a roadside memorial in Portapique, N.S.. A man went on a murder rampage in Portapique and several other Nova Scotia communities killing 22 people. Aftermath of mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 26 Apr 2020

    Nova Scotia shooting: police launch ‘psychological autopsy’ of gunman for clues

  • FILES-CANADA-POLITICS-GUNS<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 19, 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference on COVID-19 situation in Canada from his residence in Ottawa. - Trudeau announced on May 1, 2020, an immediate ban on 1,500 models of military-style assault weapon, responding to a mass shooting and arson spree that left 22 people dead. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Trudeau announces Canada is banning assault-style weapons

24 April 2020

  • RCMP officers fake RCMP car collision scene by Gabriel Wortman<br>RCMP officers go over a car collision scene involving the fake RCMP car driven by Gabriel Wortman in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Canada April 19, 2020. REUTERS/John Morris

    Nova Scotia gunman used fake police cruiser to flag down victims

  • Mourners react at a memorial for RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson, in Shubenacadie, near Enfield<br>Krista Hughes adjusts flowers that had blown away from a makeshift memorial for Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable Heidi Stevenson, who was shot dead during Sunday’s killing spree that worked it’s way across several Nova Scotian communities, in Shubenacadie, near Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Tim Krochak

    Twelve hours of terror: how the Nova Scotia shooting rampage unfolded

23 April 2020

  • Aftermath of mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 21 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (10620823e) Workers at an extended care facility show their community support in Debert, N.S.. RCMP say at least 19 people are dead after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser, went a murder rampage in Portapique, and other Nova Scotia communities. The alleged killer was shot and killed by police. Aftermath of mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 21 Apr 2020

    Nova Scotia shooting: residents ask why authorities didn't send emergency alert

    Residents say emergency alert during shooting spree could have saved lives as gunman drove around the province for over 12 hours

21 April 2020

  • Mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 20 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (10619560c) A display dedicated to Constable Heidi Stevenson at RCMP headquarters in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Investigators say a killer’s use of a mock police cruiser and an RCMP uniform almost identical to the real thing helped him escape detection as he travelled between 16 crime scenes in a rampage that has left at least 19 dead in Nova Scotia. Mass shooting, Nova Scotia, Canada - 20 Apr 2020

    Nova Scotia shooting: death toll rises to 22 as more victims identified

    Portraits of those killed emerge while police search 16 crime scenes across Canadian province

20 April 2020

  • RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson walks children across a street in Nova Scotia<br>Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable Heidi Stevenson, who was shot and killed by a gunman April 19, 2020, walks children across a street in a September 2015 photograph from the RCMP in Nova Scotia's Facebook site. RCMP in Nova Scotia/Handout via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    Nova Scotia shooting: friends and family pay tribute to ‘beautiful souls’ lost in rampage

    Eighteen people were murdered in a handful of tightly knit communities in the hours-long shooting spree
  • Shooting Rampage Leaves At Least 16 Dead In Nova Scotia<br>WENTWORTH CENTRE, NS - APRIL 20: A Wentworth volunteer firefighter douses hotspots near destroyed vehicles linked to Sunday’s deadly shooting rampage on April 20, 2020 in Wentworth Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada. Two residents of the home as well as a neighbor were killed by a lone gunman during Canada’s worst mass killing. Seventeen people including the gunman died during the rampage, which was scattered through several rural communities in the Maritime provinces. (Photo by Tim Krochak/Getty Images)

    Nova Scotia shooting death toll rises as Trudeau calls on Canadians to stand united

    Death toll from country’s deadliest mass shooting rose to 19, including the gunman

    • Canada shooting: gunman kills 16 people after rampage in Nova Scotia

    • Nova Scotia shooting: shock and surprise at killings by denturist

    • Gunman kills more than 16 in Canada's worst act of mass murder in 30 years – video

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