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The victims in Canada’s worst mass shooting included an RCMP officer, a teacher, health-care workers, retirees, neighbours of the shooter and two correctional officers killed in their home. Read more: ‘There were failures’: N.S. shooting inquiry report slams RCMP response to 2020 tragedy Here is a look at the 22 …
Read More »Senior Mounties involved in N.S. mass shooting response either retired or in new jobs
As a public inquiry prepares for the release of its final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, its findings are sure to refocus the spotlight on the RCMP’s problem-plagued response to the 13-hour rampage that claimed 22 lives. Almost three years after a man disguised as a Mountie …
Read More »Police working to identify motive in ‘horrendous’ Vaughan condo mass shooting
Police north of Toronto are working to determine the motive in what they’ve called a “horrendous” shooting at a condo that left five people, plus the suspected gunman, dead. News Source link
Read More »RCMP say Sask. mass killing suspect not on James Smith Cree Nation, search continues
Mass killing suspect Myles Sanderson is not hiding at James Smith Cree Nation, RCMP say. Authorities say the location of the mass murder suspect is still unknown and are urging the public to remain cautious. Earlier Tuesday, RCMP sent an alert telling residents of James Smith Cree Nation, about 170 kilometres …
Read More »RCMP officers involved in N.S. mass shooting inquiry linked to gaps in earlier murder case
Multiple RCMP officers involved in the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry have been linked to gaps in a 2017 murder case now undergoing a federal civilian review, including the Mountie who visited the gunman for tips on local crime in Portapique. The Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry into the …
Read More »Uvalde school police chief could become 1st officer to lose job over mass shooting
The embattled school police chief in Uvalde, Texas, could on Wednesday become the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant response by hundreds of heavily armed law enforcement personnel during the May massacre at Robb Elementary School. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District was set to make a …
Read More »Estate of N.S. mass shooter in limbo as lawsuits continue
More than two years after he went on a deadly rampage killing 22 people, the estate of Gabriel Wortman remains tied up in litigation and under the control of the public trustee. An inventory filed in December 2020 valued the estate at more than $2.1 million. That included $120,000 that …
Read More »Mountie has ‘impression’ Liberal government interfered with N.S. mass shooting probe
A senior Mountie testified Thursday he believes political inference was behind RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s determination to have police release details on the guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Chief Supt. Chris Leather made the comment at the public inquiry into the rampage that took 22 lives on …
Read More »‘We failed you’: Senior Mountie apologizes to families of mass shooting victims
After two days of intense questioning of how RCMP decisions were made during the mass shooting of April 2020, Chief Supt. Darren Campbell ended his testimony at the public inquiry in tears, apologizing to the families of 22 victims who died. As he broke down, Campbell said it was the …
Read More »Senior N.S. Mounties testifying at mass shooting inquiry this week
Two senior RCMP officers will testify this week at the public inquiry examining the mass shooting two years ago in Nova Scotia. Supt. Darren Campbell and Chief Supt. Chris Leather are scheduled to speak to the Mass Casualty Commission for two days each, beginning with Campbell on Monday. The commission …
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