CANADA - shooter in RCMP vehicle and uniform, 23 killed - Portapique, NS *suspect dead*

[MistyWaters]

The picture I'm getting is that this rampage started around 10:30PM on April 18. He shot someone and lit the house on fire. The son of one neighbour, checking out the fire, texted that it was a big fire, he was taking pictures and would be home soon. His brother and father waited for him, he didn't return. His brother took a flashlight and looked for him, found him laying dead on the road and ran for his life. For the next 4 hours, he heard gun shots and saw fires all around him as he lay silent in the trees. He called his father an hour later, warned him to turn off the lights and not use the phone.

Two boys, 8 and 10, hid in their basement until the shooter left, and then ran to their friend's nearby house. This happened on the evening of April 18.

In the morning, April 19, he drove away in a police replica car. Police say they were in the area looking for an active shooter. I'm guessing they did not think that the active shooter lived in the area, or expect that he might have sat in a police car amongst them as they pursued the shooter.

He shot a pregnant nurse making home visits who crossed his path that morning.

The RCMP officer chased him, rammed him. The shooter got out of his car, shot her. He torched his car. He took her car (?) and then took a silver SUV from another person - who was also shot. He was cornered at the gas station, engaged police, and was shot. He died later.

His own home was torched, but there was something about him having lived on Portapique Beach Road but lost a house to his girlfriend? Did they live in a different area. He travelled 50 km.

In 2001, there was an assault on a teenage boy waiting at the bus stop near his denture clinic, and in 2004 there's something about how he treated his then girlfriend. Do we know her name?

Within this link is a map marked with the different locations of all the devastation he left behind, beyond horrific. It appears although police thought he was contained within Portapique area into the following morning, he was long gone north in the Wentworth area. After that he traveled southerly again, toward Dartmouth/Halifax.

‘All these sweet, innocent people’: As anguish builds over Nova Scotia massacre, glimpses of a killer emerge

 

[Peace777]

Sad to ask I wonder if he was carrying an accelerant of some kind to start all the fires? If he did he was just plain EVIL

 

[MistyWaters]

Good summary but 2 things: RCMP did state in a press conference that at no time did he drive a real police vehicle. Also no confirmation his own home was torched or the rest of that paragraph re: girlfriend or losing a house to her.

And it can’t be a reliable police source who claimed his ex and her boyfriend were the first to be murdered when it’s still not clear if she was a victim.

“It was unclear if Wortman's ex-partner was among the casualties, investigators said.”
Nova Scotia shooting may have begun as a domestic violence dispute: Investigators

 

[flipflop]

This has been posted but worth repeating

OPP investigating reports of someone impersonating an officer in Wellington County

This happened on April 14th, 4 days prior to the events in N.S.

Also this complaint on April 2nd from the same area of ON
Residents complain of ‘power-tripping cop’ stopping vehicles with two or more people

 

[MistyWaters]

This is a very touching tribute video by National Post to all the people of Nova Scotia and family and friends of victims, sourced from tweets.

N.S. mass shooting leaves many unanswered questions over RCMP communications with public

Also this comment -
“Darryl Davies, criminology professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, told the National Post he had sympathy with a police department dealing with an unprecedented crisis.

“We’ve never had a mass shooting on this scale in Canada,” he said. “There were multiple things going on at the time, you had houses on fire. That detachment is not exactly like (you’d see in) downtown Toronto. They would just have been overwhelmed by all that information.”

“Basically it’s panic mode. It was like TNT exploded. Even those who are meticulously trained, even in wartime, will sometimes function out of character when something happens that quickly.”

 

[otto]

Here is a Google Earth map that I was able to put together using NS civil address finder and information posted upthread. I have intentionally left off victims names and addresses for obvious reasons. But I just thought it may help some others be able to picture how some of it may have unfolded.

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Thank you! Maps help me understand the bigger picture. Were all of his intended victims his neighbours? The others were two RCMP officers and bystanders with vehicles in Truro?

If he started shooting at 10:30PM and police were all over the place soon after receiving numerous 911 calls, how did he get out of the area? Did he drive out in the morning? Shooting started in the morning again with the RCMP officers, two bystanders with vehicles, so maybe his plan was to drive out of the area in his RCMP mock-up vehicle and disappear, but RCMP recognized the vehicle and rammed him?

 

[RNGB66]

As of tonight, April 22, 2020 there are still 4 people missing.

 

[Tighthead]

As of tonight, April 22, 2020 there are still 4 people missing.

What is your source on that?

And welcome.

 

[Marp]

Thank you! Maps help me understand the bigger picture. Were all of his intended victims his neighbours? The others were two RCMP officers and bystanders with vehicles in Truro?

If he started shooting at 10:30PM and police were all over the place soon after receiving numerous 911 calls, how did he get out of the area? Did he drive out in the morning? Shooting started in the morning again with the RCMP officers, two bystanders with vehicles, so maybe his plan was to drive out of the area in his RCMP mock-up vehicle and disappear, but RCMP recognized the vehicle and rammed him?

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[otto]

Good summary but 2 things: RCMP did state in a press conference that at no time did he drive a real police vehicle. Also no confirmation his own home was torched or the rest of that paragraph re: girlfriend or losing a house to her.

Mock-up police car.

Thank you. I checked in from time to time early on, early information is sometimes inaccurate.

My question is : when did he leave his neighbourhood? Where was he first spotted by the RCMP in the morning?

The first shooting and fire was at 10:30. There were numerous calls to 911. RCMP must have arrived in 20 minutes, an hour? They arrived, and one young man was hiding in the trees for four hours listening to shooting and houses blowing up. He called his father an hour after he went to look for his brother - who was a random victim checking out the first fire.

The shootings North of Truro, were later that evening, or the following morning?



Nova Scotia shooting may have begun as a domestic violence dispute: Investigators

 

[ab01]

This happened on April 14th, 4 days prior to the events in N.S.

Also this complaint on April 2nd from the same area of ON
Residents complain of ‘power-tripping cop’ stopping vehicles with two or more people

Worth noting that it was some 17-18 hrs away and a completely different province. The vehicle used was a Black unmarked car with only a dash light and exterior antenna. Likely made to look like an opp undercover vehicle. Now this may by some crazy circumstance be related as we don't know his whereabouts in the weeks leading up to this incident , but there hasn't been a known connection at this point. jmo

 

[Marp]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nova-scotia-tick-tock-murder-rampage-1.5539000

CBC reports:
At least four people were killed in Wentworth, a town near one of the region's most popular ski hills.

Sean McLeod was a Correctional Service Canada (CSC) employee at Springhill Institution, a federal prison in Springhill. He lived in West Wentworth with his girlfriend, Alanna Jenkins, another CSC employee at the Nova Institution for Women.

A neighbour called 911 to report an explosion and gunfire at their home around 8 a.m. Sunday.

 

[otto]

Lisa is the name of a woman he worked with at his denture clinic, according to google reviews. I wonder if it's the same Lisa.

Here she is singing a couple of weeks ago for the students in lockdown

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1094970254218347

 

[jaxb]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nova-scotia-tick-tock-murder-rampage-1.5539000

CBC reports:
At least four people were killed in Wentworth, a town near one of the region's most popular ski hills.

Sean McLeod was a Correctional Service Canada (CSC) employee at Springhill Institution, a federal prison in Springhill. He lived in West Wentworth with his girlfriend, Alanna Jenkins, another CSC employee at the Nova Institution for Women.

A neighbour called 911 to report an explosion and gunfire at their home around 8 a.m. Sunday.

Here she is singing a couple of weeks ago for the students in lockdown

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1094970254218347

 

[otenn]

I think it was his plan all long to kill people even 1's that had done nothing to him . He likely killed his Ex and boyfriend 1st then after that the adrenaline kicked in as he may have felt some sense of "power" maybe. I wonder if he was on some type of drugs or drunk (seen on some article he had a problem with alcohol). Or he could have just went psychotic. I wonder if he had any children as if he did those poor children are having to deal with what their "father" did . There's been no mention of his side of the family except a nephew that he conned out of some property, court case etc. This guy was also a shyster and con-man. He was TROUBLE. JMO

Who were his ex and new boyfriend?

 

[jaxb]

Here she is singing a couple of weeks ago for the students in lockdown

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1094970254218347

That is Lisa McCully. The teacher & his neighbor who he murdered.

 

[LadyL]

Thank you! Maps help me understand the bigger picture. Were all of his intended victims his neighbours? The others were two RCMP officers and bystanders with vehicles in Truro?

If he started shooting at 10:30PM and police were all over the place soon after receiving numerous 911 calls, how did he get out of the area? Did he drive out in the morning? Shooting started in the morning again with the RCMP officers, two bystanders with vehicles, so maybe his plan was to drive out of the area in his RCMP mock-up vehicle and disappear, but RCMP recognized the vehicle and rammed him?

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and what was he doing overnight - sleeping???

 

[otto]

Found the video I had mentioned in a previous post of the police cars on fire. There is some swearing in it tho as the couple can't believe what they are witnessing.

Edit - something other than shooter in video

 

[lucidtx]

Sad to ask I wonder if he was carrying an accelerant of some kind to start all the fires? If he did he was just plain EVIL

I can't imagine how he could've started such large fires so quickly without using some sort of accelerant, especially from the exterior.

 

[kmclaren]

and what was he doing overnight - sleeping???

That is my big question too. The RCMP were onsite in/around Portapique about 10:30pm. So fires, gunshots all going on. The next we hear of him is at 8am up in Wentworth when he killed the 2 correction officers and the volunteer firefighter that came to help when he set their house on fire. Wentworth is only 30 minutes north of Portapique. So where was he between those 2 locations???