How police finally ended the N.S. gunman's 13-hour rampage
CBC
The mass killer who took the lives of 22 Nova Scotians as he drove in a fake police car across the province likely shot himself in the head as officers fired 23 bullets at him at a gas station, seconds after recognizing him.
New documents released Wednesday by the Mass Casualty Commission leading the public inquiry into the April 2020 shooting rampage detail what it believes happened leading up to, and during, the gunman's death on April 19, 2020.
The province's chief medical examiner concluded the shots fired by police were likely what killed the gunman, Gabriel Wortman, at the gas station in Enfield, N.S., according to the records.
The documents also offer more details of what happened just minutes before, at around 11:16 a.m., when the gunman stopped at another gas station but wasn't recognized by a police officer who had arrived to fill up.
The shooter was driving the Mazda 3 he'd stolen moments earlier from his final shooting victim, Gina Goulet, when he pulled up at a Petro-Canada in the community of Elmsdale, near Enfield.
At the same time, three RCMP constables with the emergency response team pulled up on the opposite side of the same pump at the Petro-Canada, facing the opposite direction.
One of the officers, Const. Brent Kelly, later told the commission he noticed the man just feet away from him at the gas pump — but didn't think anything of him since he was dressed in jeans and a white shirt.
"I had a hard time with that for …a little while," Kelly said. "That hit me."
At that point, police believed the gunman was dressed as a Mountie and was still in the silver SUV he'd stolen from victim Joey Webber, who he'd killed less than a half-hour earlier. Kelly had no idea he'd changed his clothes when he stopped at Goulet's home.
The gunman at one point tried to stretch a gas line across the Mazda to fuel up but it wouldn't reach. A gas station employee came over the intercom and told him to move to a different pump.
Kelly noticed a "slight bump" over the man's left eye, but said "knowing the area … Sunday morning, I really didn't pay too much attention to a guy with a shiner. I'm like, that's not uncommon."
The gunman then moved to a pump further away, but left soon after without getting gas.
About seven kilometres south, Dorothy Rogers was working at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield that morning. She'd learned from a friend about a man who was shooting people while dressed in a police uniform, driving a fake police car.
Rogers knew the gunman had been spotted in Brookfield and was headed her way, which was "unsettling." She then noticed police officers with guns get out of a light-coloured SUV at the pumps beside a small grey car.
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