The shooting rampage that began Saturday night in Portapique, N.S., claimed the lives of nearly two dozen victims, including a pregnant continuing care assistant and a 17-year-old girl.
Twenty-three people are now confirmed dead after the shooting rampage that began Saturday in Portapique, N.S., and ended Sunday almost 100 kilometres away in Enfield.
RCMP gave the new death toll, which includes the shooter, Tuesday afternoon in a news release. They also confirmed the locations across the province where they’ve found victims — Portapique, Wentworth, Debert, Shubenacadie and Enfield.
As police investigators compile evidence from the 16 crime scenes scattered around those towns, the piles of flowers and mournful notes piling up at memorials across Nova Scotia are growing.
On Tuesday, police maintained a blockade at the top of Portapique Beach Road, where police were called to respond to a possible shooting and multiple structure fires around 11:30 p.m. Saturday. They found “several” casualties at that time. But their pursuit of the gunman continued for another 12 hours.