Police defend insufficient wide alert found in Canada shooting
Police say they were preparing a crisis alert when law enforcement shot and killed the suspect in the worst mass shooting found in Canada's modern history.
Authorities have been criticised for counting on social media to alert Nova Scotia occupants the manhunt for the gunman.
At least 22 people were killed over 13 hours that spanned Saturday night to Sunday morning.
Police are actually yet to determine a good motive for the crime.
The victims include a 17-year-outdated, a pregnant healthcare worker and a veteran Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer.
Members of the family of some victims possess spoken publicly about whether a province-large alert delivered to all residents of Nova Scotia can have prevented a number of the deaths.
Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Law enforcement (RCMP) Chief Supt Chris Leather said that from enough time of the original calls to emergency solutions on Saturday evening reporting gunshots found in the rural network of Portapique, law enforcement officials were processing fast-moving information.
Responders found "several casualties inside and outside of a home" but no suspect.
They also learned "multiple sites in the immediate area, including structures and vehicles that were on fire".
One tweet was sent out at that time warning residents of Portapique, where in fact the rampage began, to stay indoors due to a "firearms complaint".
Police create two parameters to search for the suspect.
It was at around 08:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Sunday morning that law enforcement met with an integral witness who gave them critical info on the gunman, Chief Supt Leather said.
After that, the RCMP began featuring frequent updates on Twitter, that have been found by media.
Victims were also within the communities of Wentworth, Debert, Shubenacadie/Milford and Enfield.
The search ended shortly before midday on Sunday when the suspect was located by police at something station in Enfield, north of the provincial capital of Halifax. He was shot and later on died.
At around 10:15 that morning hours provincial officials contacted law enforcement to offer a crisis alert, Chief Supt Leathers said.
They were along the way of preparing our emergency notification when the gunman was shot by police.
The investigator said he was "very satisfied with the messaging" by police given the complexity of the crime they were working with.
What more do we realize about the investigation?
Little is known in what motivated the suspect, Gabriel Wortman, 51 or so why he chose his victims.
Law enforcement said on Wednesday that even while their investigation revealed the suspected shooter acted by itself, "we are continuing to research whether anyone may features assisted him before the incident - that's still the main active investigation".
They are expected release a a more detailed timeline of the course of situations in the coming times. The rampage occurred in multiple communities and over 13 hours.
There are 16 crime scenes being investigated, including multiple fires.
Police say the search for the gunman was hampered by the fact he was driving a vehicle that appeared as if a law enforcement cruiser and was using a law enforcement uniform. How he procured both is normally the main investigation.
Who were the victims?
Among the dead were a teacher, a home care nurse focusing on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, and an RCMP officer.
A national digital vigil will be held this week to honour the victims of the shooting, as the province is locked-down as a result of virus.
The first victim whose name was made public was Constable Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of the force and a mother of two. The newest had been Alanna Jenkins and Sean McLeod, both managers at correctional facilities.
Another was first Heather O'Brien, who was simply caring for the elderly with the non-revenue Victorian Order of Nurses (VON), during the provincial-wide lockdown before she was first killed near her hometown of Debert, Nova Scotia.
Another VON employee, Kristen Beaton, was as well killed through the shooting.
Lisa McCully, a mom of two, was among the victims. McCully have been a school instructor at Debert Elementary College, in line with the school's website.
Not absolutely all the victims - both men and women, according to police, and one 17-year-old - have been named.
