A man wearing a police uniform went on a shooting rampage in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 13 people, in the deadliest such attack in the country in 30 years. Officials say the suspected shooter is also dead.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers surround a suspect at a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia on Sunday April 19, 2020. Canadian police say multiple people are dead plus the suspect after a shooting rampage across the province of Nova Scotia. It was the deadliest shooting in Canada in 30 years.
Police first announced that they had arrested Wortman at a gas station in Enfield, outside Halifax, but later said he had died. It was not clear how, and they did not explain further. Mass shootings are relatively rare in the country. Canada overhauled its gun-control laws after the its worst mass shooting in 1989, when gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique college. This weekend’s shooting is the deadliest since then. It is now illegal to possess an unregistered handgun or any kind of rapid-fire weapon in Canada.
Leather said they would investigate whether the attack had anything to do with the coronavirus pandemic but no link has been found thus far.Late Sunday morning, there were half a dozen police vehicles at the scene of a gas station where the suspect died. Yellow police tape surrounded the gas pumps, and a large silver-colored SUV was being investigated.
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