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HALIFAX New information released by court order now reveals the types of firearms the perpetrator of Canada s worst mass murder had with him when he was shot and killed by RCMP after his 13-hour killing rampage. On the night of April 18, the killer set fire to several homes and killed 13 people in Portapique, N.S., before evading police later that night. Gabriel Wortman carried out his crimes while dressed as a Mountie and driving a vehicle made to look like an RCMP cruiser. He went on to kill nine more people at locations throughout Colchester County the next morning. One of the victims was pregnant when she was shot and killed in her vehicle.
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The killer behind the Nova Scotia mass shooting that left 22 people dead in April was armed with five guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and had more victims in mind when he was finally stopped, according to newly released court documents.
That revelation, included in the latest batch of RCMP warrant applications released as part of a continuing legal challenge, comes from police evidence and statements his common-law wife, Lisa Banfield, gave to investigators the morning after the rampage began on April 18 in the rural hamlet of Portapique, N.S.