Monday, 20 April 2020

WHAT DROVE GUNMAN GABRIEL WORTHMAN TO KILL 17 PEOPLE IN CANADA'S WORST GUN ATTACK ?

Seventeen people are dead, including an RCMP officer, after 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman — who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser — went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia over the weekend. Police publicly identified Wortman about nine hours after an initial tweet around midnight Saturday, asking people to avoid the Portapique area and stay indoors as officers responded to a firearms complaint. Wortman was killed after police intercepted him at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., on Sunday, and his death is being investigated by a police watchdog.
NOVIA SCOTIA GUNMAN GABRIEL WORTMAN.


But who was he?

Investigators are continuing to piece together one of Canada’s deadliest mass killings, and its author, but snippets are beginning to emerge of the denturist-turned-killer.



Wortman, according to social media reports, originally hailed from Riverview, outside Moncton, New Brunswick. He attended Riverview High School, before heading on to Fredericton, and the University of New Brunswick.
RCMP CONSTABLE Heidi Stevenson Killed While Responding To The Attack.
After university, Wortman had moved into a career as a denturist, and ran the Atlantic Denture Clinic in Dartmouth, N.S., as well as one in Dartmouth, outside Halifax. He is reported to have divided his time between the two areas.

Some Portapique residents who spoke with the Canadian Press said they knew Wortman in passing as a part-time resident who owned properties in the community.

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