How Gabriel Wortman managed to get an authentic police uniform and a mock RCMP vehicle are key questions investigators are trying to answer after a deadly rampage that left 23 people dead.
As Gabriel Wortman moved undetected throughout Nova Scotia for hours, carrying out a deadly rampage that left 23 people dead, he was helped by the fact that he was driving a vehicle that looked “identical in every way to a marked police car,” the RCMP have said.
The only major detectable difference, the RCMP pointed out on Twitter, were five characters written on the side of the vehicle, which police circled in a photo distributed to the public during the hunt for the suspect.
“It wasn’t actually an RCMP vehicle, but it was made to look identical to one, and we will trace back every part of that vehicle to find out how that happened,” RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said.
Another white Ford Taurus, similar to the one used during the rampage, was parked at the property of Wortman’s denture clinic in Dartmouth on Monday. By Tuesday, it had been removed.
On top of that, the suspected shooter wore what police described on Tuesday as “an authentic police uniform.”
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