The death toll from 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman in deadly villages in central Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, is mounting. On Monday April 20, the province’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced that the number of victims killed on the night of Saturday April 18 to Sunday April 19 was now at least 18 people, all adults. A report to which must be added the shooter, shot dead by the police on Sunday morning in a gas station in Endfield, a hundred kilometers south of Portapique where the killer had started his massacre, the deadliest than the Canada has never known.
The authorities do not exclude that the number of victims is still increasing, because of the sixteen crime scenes analyzed by the investigators, some of them were set on fire by the murderer. The English daily newspaper Globe and Mail reports that Gabriel Wortman set fire to his own house in Portapique, as well as several nearby residences, before shooting people who, in panic, fled their homes. According to the police, it is not impossible that some people perished in the flames.
The province's RCMP chief of criminal operations said "Victims were known to the murderer, and targeted, but not all", refusing to specify the nature of the relations that the shooter could have with some of them. He also seemed to exclude any external complicity, claiming that "The police were not looking for any other suspect".
"True uniform or certified copy"
If the authorities believe that it is still too early to reveal the exact route of Gabriel Wortman in Portapique and its surroundings, they seek to answer two essential questions for the investigation: how did the murderer obtain a uniform? the RCMP, "A real uniform or a certified copy", and how could he ride in a car made up of RCMP colors? The vehicle was found burned on Sunday morning at the site of the body of Heidi Stevenson, an RCMP police officer who was among the victims.
This kit of police used by the killer would have facilitated his escape and would explain, according to the authorities, why the hunt for the man lasted more than twelve hours. The first telephone alerts reporting " fire " were received at 10:37 p.m. on Saturday evening and the murderous journey did not end until 11:40 a.m. on Sunday morning.
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