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Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 07:55 AM Apr 2020

Canada mass shooter obtained police car replica at auction

Source: AP

By ROB GILLIES

TORONTO (AP) — A gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia this month obtained a replica police car at an auction and outfitted it with a light bar and decals that made it look almost identical to a genuine RCMP vehicle before using it to go on a rampage, police said Tuesday.

Thirteen of the victims were shot to death and nine died in fires set by the suspect, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Jennifer Clarke.

RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell said Gabriel Wortman, 51, owned four used police cars obtained at auction and said he collected police uniforms. He said Wortman was related to retired RCMP officers and they’ve been interviewed. He said there is no indication that a former RCMP officer assisted Wortman or provided him with any police equipment.

Campbell reiterated the weekend rampage on April 18 and 19 started with an assault by Wortman on his girlfriend and ended with 22 people dead in communities across central and northern Nova Scotia. His girlfriend, who survived and is cooperating with police, hid overnight in the woods as the suspect shot his neighbors and set homes on fire. His girlfriend was a neighbor



Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Darren Campbell provides an update of the Nova Scotia shootings at RCMP headquarters in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Police say a gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia this month obtained a replica police car at auction last fall. RCMP Supt. Campbell said Gabriel Wortman outfitted his vehicle with a light bar and decals that made it look almost identical to a genuine RCMP vehicle. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)


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Canada mass shooter obtained police car replica at auction (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2020 OP
Reminds me of yesterday's GOPer advising to dress like real medical personnel bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 #1
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bucolic_frolic

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1. Reminds me of yesterday's GOPer advising to dress like real medical personnel
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 08:47 AM
Apr 2020

there are boundaries, uniforms, accoutrements for a reason. We need to stiffen them up.

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