TORONTO: A 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage across the northern part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including a policewoman. Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead.
The man was identified as Gabriel Wortman and authorities said he disguised himself as a police officer in uniform at one point and mocked up a car to make it seem like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser.
He was arrested by the RCMP in a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia, northwest of downtown Halifax. Police later announced that he had died.
“In excess of 10 people have been killed,” RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said. “We believe it to be one person who is responsible for all the killings and that he alone moved across the northern part of the province and committed what appears to be several homicides.”
Leather said they don’t have a final death count.
“It almost certainly will be more than 10. How much more than 10, I do not know,” he said.
Brian Sauve, President of National Police Federation union, said a police officer was among those killed in a shooting and another was injured.
The dead officer was identified as Const. Heidi Stevenson, a mother of two and a 23-year-old veteran of the force.
Police have not provided a motive for
