One of the interesting tidbits from today’s news is that the girlfriend was apparently restrained in the car while the shooter poured gasoline over the floor of his cottage at 200 PB Rd. and 136 OB Dr., and escaped after he had lit both properties on fire. Which means he drove her from 136 OB Dr. to 200 PB Rd. and back to 136 OB Dr. before she escaped. That helps explains the level of destruction in such a short period of time. His two homes were already on fire before he started killing people.
“…the girlfriend watched GW “pour accelerants in the cottage (200 Portapique Beach Road) and the warehouse and observed that there were several firearms on the front seat of an out of commission police car.” The girlfriend “managed to escape” and “ran into the woods,” where she hid until morning.”
It also details the whereabouts of the witness who was shot at and injured. He had just driven by what appears to be, by the description, the Gulenchyn house (attached is a photo of their house, from 2013 before they owned it. It is small and visible from the road;
here is the satellite map of their residence):
“Meanwhile, the ITO states, two people saw “what appeared to be a large structure fire” on Orchard Beach Road. They called 911 and then got in their car and drove towards the fire. They saw a small blue house on fire, “and that there was a ‘police car’ parked in the driveway, not far from the fire.”
“The pair believed the ‘police car’ was simply waiting for firefighters to arrive. They drove past it and came upon GW’s “whole garage [which] was engulfed by fire.” They called 911 again, and the call taker said they were aware of the fire. So the pair turned around and then came back up the road, passing the blue house again. “They noticed the whole kitchen of the house was on fire and they could see that the fire was spreading super quick.”
The “‘police car’ came up from behind them and then pulled up along side of them.” The man who was driving assumed there was a cop in the ‘police car’ who wanted to talk to him, so he rolled down his window. “But before he could say anything, he pulled a gun out and started shooting at them through his passenger side window into [their] driver side window; his vehicle was about 2 feet away from [their] vehicle.”
That would seem to indicate that the Gulenchyn house was the last attack before the shooter slipped away, and the Blairs and Lisa McCully, the first victims shot after he set fire to his own homes. That means between around 10 p.m. and just before 10:26, when the witness was shot at and wounded, the shooter went to the Zahl-Thomas house, the Oliver-Tuck house and the Bonds house, in what order and by what path we don’y know yet. It is also conceivable that the shooter went to the Zahl-Thomas house after the Gulenchyn house and escaped down Faris Ln to Cobequid Ct. through a back way that would connect him first to the very southern tip of Orchard Beach Dr. From the east end of Cobequid Ct. he
could have tured left onto a path (photo 20, I believe, in the Viewpoint Canada link) that leads to Brown’s Loop and out of the Portapique neighborhood.
