As front-line officers frantically tried to track down the man on a shooting rampage in rural Nova Scotia last weekend, investigators behind the scenes were trying to figure out who the gunman was aiming for next.
As front-line officers frantically tried to track down the man on a shooting rampage in rural Nova Scotia last weekend, investigators behind the scenes were trying to figure out who the gunman was aiming for next.
RCMP say they did not find an actual hit list of potential targets, but after interviewing the longtime girlfriend of their suspect, they started reaching out to people, including family members.
“We were contacting individuals who we believed could have been on a list or were potentially at risk … We were bringing them to safety and we were interviewing them at that time,” RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell during a briefing Friday morning.
Police did not say where these people were located or whether they were related to the girlfriend or gunman. Some homes in Portapique, N.S., were evacuated overnight as police tried to secure the area.
A household in Glenholme