According to Chriss Leder, a police officer at the RCMP, police on Saturday night received several phone calls from citizens in the town of Portpique, regarding several shootings that took place at various locations in this rural area where only 100 people live during the winter and during the summer. triple.
The calls were made half an hour after midnight, and upon arrival at the scene, the police had encountered several dead bodies, Leder announced.
"It was a situation that developed quickly and there were terrible scenes," he added.
Police immediately appealed to citizens to stay in their homes and close their doors. On the other hand, the attacker identified as the dentist, Gabriel Wortman, 51, was on the run at the time.
He is not a resident of that town, but as reported by "The Chronicle Herald" in Portpique he was the owner of a real estate company and worked as a dentist in two clinics in Dartmund in Halifax.
Wortman had left the scene wearing a police uniform, and the car with the code 28B11 very similar to RCMP police cars
In a Twitter post, police said the assailant's car still differed from police - telling the public that he was not a police officer. However, it is not known where he took the police uniform and the type of weapons he used to kill civilians.
It took 12 hours for the forces to seize Wortman, and according to local media, everything happened with action movie scenes. Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck. Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
Pictures of a burned-out car on the highway have even been published, which it wanted to destroy as evidence that could have served the police. But the multi-hour pursuit came to an end when the perpetrator of the massacre decided to stop at a fuel pump about 90 kilometers from Portpique where the first shots were heard.
There was a confrontation with the police, where Heidi Stevendson, a Canadian police officer (RCMP) who had served as a police officer for 23 years, died.
However, it is not known whether the attacker himself was killed or committed suicide during these shootings. Police initially reported that Wortman had been arrested, but witnesses who spoke to CTV News claim he was killed.
"Heidi responded to the call where during the confrontation with the attacker she lost her life protecting the citizens - whom she served for 23 years. She left behind two children and her husband ", it is said in the police statement.
A police officer was also injured in the attack, and he was rushed to hospital for treatment - after which it was announced that his health condition had stabilized.
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