RCMP officer among 17 confirmed dead in Nova Scotia killing spree.
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RCMP say 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia in one of the deadliest killing sprees in Canadian history.
Police said Sunday night the suspected shooter, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was killed after being intercepted by officers in Enfield, N.S.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ique-1.5537598
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Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year member of the force and mother of two, was identified as the officer killed. A male officer suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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We are in shock here in Eastern Canada. This is way to close to home for my family. The killer was going down the 102 to Halifax where my son, his wife and our two grandchildren live. My daughter's partner is a 30 year veteran in the RCMP. They lost one of their own, Const. Heidi Stevenson and that is always a tough situation.
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told CBC News Sunday evening the death toll stood at 16, plus the shooter, which surpasses the 14 victims killed in the 1989 Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.
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