Brian MacDonald can’t explain it, but he just knew the gunman believed to be responsible for Nova Scotia’s mass shooting had been on his property.
Brian MacDonald of Debert, N.S., had a feeling the gunman in Nova Scotia’s mass shooting had been on his property. 2:13
Brian MacDonald can’t explain it, but he just knew the gunman believed to be responsible for Nova Scotia’s mass shooting had been on his property.
MacDonald, who owns a welding shop on 123 Ventura Dr. in the rural community of Debert, had done some work for Gabriel Wortman in the past — mostly working on parts and repairs for Wortman’s fleet of two or three dozen motorcycles, MacDonald said, as well as a backhoe.
Police say Wortman, 51, killed 22 people during an overnight rampage on April 18 and 19 that began in Portapique and ended nearly 100 kilometres away, in Enfield, where he was shot dead by police.
MacDonald said although his wife and daughter stayed up late following the news about possible gunshots in Portapique on April 18, about 26 kilometres southeast of Debert, he went to bed early.
The next morning, his daughter, Lisa MacDonald-White, said the situation was bad and the gunman had not yet been caught. When she heard the suspect might be a dentist, she immediately thought it must be the denturist her family knew.
MacDonald said he was “very surprised” when he learned on Sunday that police had identified the gunman as Wortman. He decided to go for a walk, and went along the lane behind his welding shop.
“I just had a feeling that he was here,” MacDonald said Wednesday. “I knew that he was around somewhere and I didn’t know where.”
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