SHUBENACADIE, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – Canadian authorities are dealing with installing criticism for utilizing social networks and not a provincial emergency situation alert system to notify the general public that a shooter was at large for some 13 hours after he murdered the very first of his 22 victims over the weekend.
Krista Hughes adjusts flowers that had blown away from a makeshift memorial for Royal Canadian Installed Cops (RCMP) Constable Heidi Stevenson, who was shot dead during Sunday’s killing spree that worked it’s way across several Nova Scotian communities, in Shubenacadie, near Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada April 22,2020 REUTERS/Tim Krochak
During the worst mass shooting in the country’s history, the Nova Scotia provincial detachment of the Royal Canadian Installed Authorities (RCMP) sent out a series of tweets to about 90,000 followers warning that there was an active shooter in the area.
But some of the friends and families of the victims stated a provincial warning system, which w