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It 33 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.280 has about one hundred residents living there in the winter 34 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.680 and maybe two hundred and fifty in the summer months. 35 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:14.400 Property owners advertised cottages for rent there as private beachfront property. 36 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:18.400 Nestled on the Bay of Fundy, the area is known 37 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:25.000 for its bass fishing and its numerous hiking trails. The 38 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.759 Bay of Fundy is a bay between the Canadian provinces 39 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.240 of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion 40 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:35.599 touching the U. S State of Maine. The Bay of Fundy, 41 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.360 on the southern coast of New Brunswick is famous for 42 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:44.919 the highest hides in the world. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 43 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:50.039 or the RCMP, are Canada's Federal and National Police Service 44 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.039 and are the police for Porta Peak and all other 45 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.120 small communities in the surrounding counties. You may have heard 46 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:05.520 them referred to sin as mounties. A detachment is a 47 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:10.639 section of the RCMP which polices a local area. There 48 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:14.400 are fifty three detachments in Nova Scotia, with the nearest 49 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.560 to Porta Peak being Truro which is twenty five miles away, 50 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.639 and the Enfield Detachment fifty eight miles away from Porta Peak. 51 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:25.159 Of some of the communities in the area of Porta 52 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:33.719 Peak the RCMP service include Deebert, Wentworth, Millbrook, Glenholme, Onslow, 53 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:42.360 Hilden and Schuberenacticity. Gabriel Wartman was a fifty one year 54 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:47.639 old denturist with a successful practice with two offices, one 55 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.919 in Dartmouth and one in Halifax, where he regularly lived. 56 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:56.520 He'd been married twice before and owned several properties in 57 00:03:56.599 --> 00:04:00.879 Porta Peak and other places. He was said by some 58 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.240 neighbors to be a millionaire with a drinking problem. Others 59 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.919 then encountered him while working found him mild mannered, and 60 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:14.240 one person even called him jovial. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, 61 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:19.560 and with the government enforced increasing travel, work and personal restrictions, 62 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.560 Whartman was not allowed to work at his clinics, so 63 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:26.120 he was staying at his cottage in port A Peak 64 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.800 with his longtime common law wife, who he also worked 65 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:35.199 with at his clinics. Wartman grew up in neighboring New Brunswick, 66 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.519 and in nineteen eighty six, when he graduated high school, 67 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.160 his yearbook entry included Gabe's future may include being an 68 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:50.120 RCMP officer. He attended the University of New Brunswick and 69 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:54.839 Fredericton in the late eighties. A fellow student there said, 70 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.560 Gabriel always had a sadness about him. I don't know 71 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.639 what his life later life, adult life was like, but 72 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.279 I can tell you that at university people weren't nice 73 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.439 to him. He was a little different, but he was 74 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.680 beautiful and he really had a deep heart. But he 75 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.759 was the brunt of everybody's jokes. After university, Warpman began 76 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:21.040 his career as a denturist and ran the Atlantic Denture 77 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.560 Clinic in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, as well as one in 78 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:28.879 the Halifax area. He divided his time between the two clinics. 79 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.839 He was featured in a twenty fourteen CTV news story 80 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:37.040 crediting him with helping provide dentures to a cancer survivor 81 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:42.560 whose medical coverage wouldn't cover the cost. He didn't grow 82 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.920 up to be an RCMP officer like his yearbook entry predicted, 83 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.439 but his biggest hobby became buying RCMP cars at auctions 84 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:55.360 and restoring them. He also collected police memorabilia and even 85 00:05:55.399 --> 00:06:01.720 had acquired an official RCMP uniform. By fall of two 86 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.199 thousand and nineteen, he now had purchased his fourth former 87 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:08.680 police car and bought roof lights and siren for the 88 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.319 car through an online auction, whereas he and his friends 89 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:19.480 then installed it. He then had an official looking RCMP 90 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:24.600 police decal created by his neighbor and drinking buddy, Peter 91 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.720 Allan Griffin, who in two thousand and seventeen was convicted 92 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:33.519 of cocaine trafficking and weapons charges linking him with the 93 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:38.639 La Familia drug cartel in Mexico. Whartman told some friends 94 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.279 that the restored ARCMP car project was to be a 95 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:47.600 type of tribute to fallen officers. Others he told if 96 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:49.920 things went bad and he needed to get out of town, 97 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.480 he wouldn't be stopped in a police car. What some 98 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.399 friends thought Wharpman was referring to was related to the 99 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:04.240 coronavirus crisis. Whartman had felt it necessary in light of 100 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.160 the ongoing declared pandemic, the stockpile food, firearms, and eight 101 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.560 hundred dollars worth of gasoline. He also bought two handguns 102 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:18.480 and two semi automatic rifles illegally. Warman was charged with 103 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.720 assaulting a fifteen year old mail in Dartmouth in October 104 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.639 two thousand and one, when he was thirty three years old. 105 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.759 Warman pled guilty to the single charge in October two 106 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:32.759 thousand and two and received a conditional discharge, meaning that 107 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.600 he wouldn't have a criminal record if he completed nine 108 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.560 months of probation and paid a fifty dollars fine. He 109 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:45.600 completed his probation successfully. In twenty ten, Wharman was investigated 110 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.839 on claims he threatened his parents, Paul and Evelyn Whartman, 111 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:53.560 but no charges were laid. Paul Whortman's brother Glynn, phoned 112 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.879 Paul to tell him that Gabriel was threatening to come 113 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:00.920 to Monkton and shoot and kill them. Whartman reported the 114 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.680 incident to the nearest RCMP detachment, and as a resultant 115 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:10.319 officer interviewed Gabriel, who flatly denied his father's claims. No 116 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.879 charges came as a result of the complaint. Paul Whartman 117 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.920 told others later that he was also beaten by Gabriel 118 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:22.279 during a vacation in Cuba, but never reported it. In 119 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.600 May twenty eleven, RCMP and TRURO received an anonymous email 120 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.160 that stated that Whartman had a cash of illegal guns 121 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.799 and wanted to kill a cop. That email tip was 122 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.720 saved in Nova Scotia's RCMP records, but was removed after 123 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:42.639 two years, as per their policy. In twenty thirteen, a 124 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:45.159 neighbor of Whartman's called police to report that he had 125 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:49.519 assaulted his wife and had illegal guns. Whartman's wife at 126 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.480 the time, Lisa, would not make a complaint, and subsequently 127 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:57.200 there were no charges. The neighbor moved after Whartman became 128 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.600 more and more threatening to her over her call to 129 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:05.480 the ARCA. Whartman owned six properties and had a serious 130 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.720 dispute for years with his uncle Glynn, over a property 131 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.720 that Whartman refused to sign off his part ownership to, 132 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.919 even after his uncle had paid him for it. The 133 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.000 property was eventually sold to a woman named Lisa McCully. 134 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.840 In late March, Whartman transferred money from his bank account 135 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:29.519 to a Brinx facility. On March thirtieth, twenty twenty, he 136 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.320 removed four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in one 137 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:37.200 hundred dollars bills. He picked up the money driving one 138 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:42.159 of his police cars. Airing on CBS the night of 139 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.799 April fourteenth in the US and Canada from the producers 140 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:49.159 of Law and Order was the new crime drama FBI 141 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:55.840 Most Wanted. In the seventh episode, which aired was featured 142 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.720 a leading character named Gabriel Clark, a small town cop 143 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:02.919 of assessed with his girlfriend, who goes on a murder 144 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:07.080 spree dressed in his police uniform, inevitably killing three police 145 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:10.840 officers and a civilian. As the man hunt for the 146 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.960 killer cop gets close, he sets his farmhouse and then 147 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:18.759 himself on fire. The audience learns that Gabriel Clark went 148 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.879 on the killing spree because he was treated unfairly when 149 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:29.200 he reported corrupt cops on the force. Evening of April eighteenth, 150 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:33.559 twenty twenty, Whartman and his common law wife attended a 151 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.799 small gathering nearby their cottage. There they argued about a 152 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.720 video call Wharpman had made earlier with a female friend. 153 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:44.679 They left the party after arguing about the call, but 154 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.840 it seemed that they had resolved the matter, so Whartman's 155 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:53.080 wife went to bed. He soon woke her up, saulted her, 156 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.600 put one of her hands in a handcuff, and dragged 157 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:57.639 her to one of his Arcian Pea cars and put 158 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.720 her in the back seat along some containers of gasoline. 159 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.759 When he went back into the house, she managed to 160 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:08.519 slip the cough off her wrist and escaped from the 161 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.080 car by sliding through the plexiglass divider between the front 162 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:15.679 and back seats. She fled into the woods, where she hid. 163 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:21.840 Whartman had destroyed her cellphone. Whartman, using his gas reserve, 164 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.720 set on fire as cottage, a warehouse on the property, 165 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.080 and three vehicles, including two of his former police cars. 166 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.240 Whartman may have been looking for his wife when he 167 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:33.679 went to the home of neighbors Greg and Jamie Blair, 168 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:36.879 who he shot and killed while their children ten and 169 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.960 twelve were in the home. Whartman then set their house 170 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.720 on fire, but the two children managed to escape. To 171 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:47.360 the home of workmen's closest neighbor, forty nine year old 172 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:52.399 elementary school teacher Lisa McCully. The children hid together in 173 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.559 mccully's basement and called nine to one one, where they 174 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:59.000 were connected with a civilian dispatcher at the RCMP's operational 175 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:03.559 communication CeNSE in Truro. McCully was murdered when she went 176 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:09.279 outside to investigate. At ten pm, RCMP received a nine 177 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.000 to one to one call about a shooting in rural 178 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:15.759 Porta Peak, and when officers arrive at ten twenty five, 179 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:19.960 they find several dead bodies outside on the road and 180 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.360 in houses, with several buildings burning. They found victims in 181 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:27.879 seven separate locations, some of them as police went from 182 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.639 house to house to look for the suspect and check 183 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:36.240 on residents. That prompted a massive emergency response, including helicopters, 184 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:42.200 Emergency Task Force officers and other forces. The search led 185 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.240 to multiple buildings that were being consumed by fire and 186 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:51.200 a series of seven murder scenes. Nine of the victims 187 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.600 were neighbors of wartmen, Aaron Tuck, forty five years old, 188 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.919 his seventeen year old daughter Emily, and his partner, forty 189 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.240 year old Joline Oliver were shot and killed by Whartman. 190 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:06.320 John Joseph Zal and his wife Elizabeth Joann Thomas's home 191 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:12.480 was burned down by Whartman. They were later found dead inside. 192 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.679 Don Madson, a long time care home worker, and her 193 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:21.720 husband Frank Gulanchin, were also shot and killed. Joy and 194 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:25.720 Peter Bond were also shot and killed. They lived less 195 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:30.080 than a half a mile away from Whartman's loghouse, so 196 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.519 it seems a small party gathering had ended and those 197 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.320 that were there previously had gone back home and wherever 198 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:41.240 the party originally was Warmon may have returned to that address, 199 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.600 first killed the occupants, and then proceeded to those people's 200 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.320 homes who had been there earlier in the evening, or 201 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.720 he hadn't returned to the party and was instead simply 202 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:55.279 looking for his wife to kill her and anyone else 203 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.879 that might think to harbor her. Forty two year old 204 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.159 Corey Ellison from Truro was in port A Peak visiting 205 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.759 his father and brother that Saturday night. Clinton and Corey 206 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.320 Ellison heard a gunshot and saw the glow of a 207 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.919 fire sometime after ten pm, and so his brother Corey 208 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.679 went out to investigate Clinton and his father hadn't heard 209 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.720 from his brother Corey after his original call to confirm 210 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.080 he was near where the fire was, and so Clinton 211 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.480 went out looking for him. He soon found his brother 212 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:32.039 Corey's dead body lying on the road. Elson said he 213 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.279 ran into woods when he saw someone he thought was 214 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:38.279 the killer walking nearby with a flashlight, and spent the 215 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.879 next several hours there shaken and frightened, hiding in the woods, 216 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:48.320 hearing the continued sound of gunshots. That night, RCMP discovered 217 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.519 two men that claimed they saw a man driving what 218 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.720 looked to them like a police car who had drove 219 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.480 alongside them and opened fire on the pair, wounding one 220 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:00.919 of them. Police by this time had identify Wartmont as 221 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.840 the likely killer, but given his cottage and property was 222 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.799 on fire and they believed there being only one way 223 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.200 out of the community and they had it secured. Whartman 224 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.600 they felt was either on foot and couldn't get too far, 225 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:17.879 or was already possibly dead in one of the fires, 226 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:23.320 they thought he might have killed himself. At eleven thirty five, 227 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:27.919 RCMP's message on Twitter was for residents to stay inside 228 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.840 and lock their doors. Police then set up a search 229 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.799 perimeter of one point two miles, believing Wartmont would have 230 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.919 no possible way now out of port A Peak overnight, 231 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.799 the RCMP did not give any updates via Twitter for 232 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:46.360 eight hours, and it was confusion later by a by 233 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.320 RCMP whether Wartmont was the driver of the police car 234 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:55.600 the two witnesses reported. RCMP claimed that at one point 235 00:15:55.639 --> 00:16:00.320 in the evening Whartman had exchanged gunfire with police, and 236 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:04.919 an overnight fire was reported in Wentworth, twenty six miles 237 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:09.759 north of Porta Peak. Police believed Whartman was acting alone 238 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:15.320 was over Officers patrolled the streets and helicopters flew overhead, 239 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.360 but residents in the area were fearful that the shooter 240 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.159 might go through the woods and attempt to enter their homes. 241 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:27.200 RCMP found victims in seven separate locations, some of them 242 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.000 as police went house to house to look for the 243 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:34.919 suspect and check on residents. At ten thirty five, Whartman 244 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.799 had already left the Porta Peak area through a field 245 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.320 and made it to Deebert, thirteen miles away from Porta Peak. 246 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.639 He arrived at a building in the Deebert Industrial Park 247 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.879 at eleven ten and spent the night somewhere in Deebert 248 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:53.399 RCMP and other law enforcement continued to search residents and 249 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.600 properties throughout the night as fires continued and citizens shuddered 250 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.960 in their homes in fear of a deadly menace. Most 251 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.359 of those residents not knowing what in the world had 252 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:11.119 just happened. Workmen left Deebert near six a m. And 253 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.640 drove on Highway four to a house where he knew 254 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:18.759 the occupants. There, he executed Federal Corrections officers Sean McLeod, 255 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:23.079 a second cousin of Peter Allen Griffin, and MacLeod's partner 256 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.920 in Lanna Jenkins. He then set their home on fire. 257 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.799 Their neighbor, Tom Bagley, and airport firefighter for thirty years, 258 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:35.680 heard an explosion and came over to help. He was 259 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.599 shot and killed by Whartman. He then set the house 260 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:43.920 on fire around the same time about seven am, Whortman's 261 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.319 common law wife emerged from hiding in the woods and 262 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:49.440 made it to a neighbor's house, where he calls nine 263 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.400 one one. ARCMP arrived and she tells him that Whartman 264 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:58.039 is wearing an RCMP uniform, has several guns, including two 265 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.599 handguns and a military firearm, and is driving his near 266 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:05.759 identical RCMP police car and provides them with a photo 267 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:09.640 of the car. She told police that he also liked 268 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.880 to carry a police issue yellow vest in the front 269 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.240 seat of his car to pass himself off as a cop. 270 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.440 She told police that Wartman wasn't a police officer want 271 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:23.200 to be. He didn't like police officers and thought he 272 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.160 was much better than them. The RCMP release at be 273 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:31.759 on the lookout for or BOLO to all RCMP officers 274 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.680 in Nova Scotia with the photo of Wartman, a photo 275 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.440 of his police car, and a warning that he was 276 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:41.240 wearing a police uniform. The RCMP at eight am posted 277 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.319 on Twitter for the public that the Porta Peak situation 278 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.079 involved an active shooter. At almost nine am, they post 279 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:51.799 Whartman's photo and state that he is to be considered 280 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.559 armed and dangerous. If you see him, do not approach. 281 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.000 He's described as a white man, bald, six foot two 282 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:05.039 to six foot three with green eyes. The RCMP's decision 283 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:09.640 not to use ready alert to notify residents was that 284 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:12.640 the RCMP may have been afraid of sending an alert, 285 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.559 in part because it could have put officers in jeopardy 286 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.359 with armed members of the public looking to protect themselves, 287 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.839 and also because their communications might have been paralyzed by 288 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.079 having everyone in the public calling in about every police 289 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.039 car they saw, so likely it was an extremely difficult 290 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:36.039 tactical decision that was made. At nine forty three, Wharptman 291 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:40.720 encounter sixty five year old Lillian Hyslop walking on the 292 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:43.920 along the Highway four in Wentworth and shoots and kills her. 293 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.720 At nine forty eight, Whartman drives to the Glenholm area, 294 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:52.000 where the residents at the house recognize him but don't 295 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.759 answer the door, and he leaves. They call RCMP afterwards. 296 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:01.240 At ten oh four, our MP tweet for people to 297 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:05.559 avoid void Highway four in Glenholm as a shooter is 298 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:09.400 in the area. At ten oh eight, Whartman pulls over 299 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.519 a car in Deebert and kills nurse Christian Beaton, mother 300 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:17.640 of a three year old who is pregnant. He continues 301 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.640 on Highway four and pulls over another motorists fifty five 302 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:24.200 year old nurse Heather O'Brien, and shoots and kills her 303 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:29.240 in her car. At ten seventeen, RCNP on Twitter posts 304 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.160 a photo of Whartman's almost identical police car, providing the 305 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.240 car's external displayed number and stating for the first time 306 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.519 that the killer, Whartman, is dressed as an RCNP officer 307 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:45.240 in driving a police car. At ten twenty five, Wartman 308 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.359 stops at Millbrook at their fire station and takes off 309 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.039 his jacket and puts on his reflective vest, then continues 310 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:58.240 driving through the community of Hilden. At ten thirty, RCMP 311 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.880 tweeted that the shooting saw suspect was in the dee 312 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:05.880 Bert in central Onslow area. About ten forty two RCMP 313 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:09.599 officers showed up to a hall in Onslow being used 314 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:12.680 as a registration center for evacuees from the man hunt 315 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:17.480 and fired several shots at the building they had apparently 316 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:21.559 mistaken the RCMP cruiser parked and an officer outside guarding 317 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.799 the fire hall for Whartman, and fired numerous times at 318 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:28.480 the officer, missing him but peppering the fire station with 319 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:32.599 bullets as frightened police and evacuees inside scrambled for cover 320 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:39.279 after hearing the gunshots outside. By that time, Whartman was 321 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:43.160 in Millbrook, about eight miles from Onslow. At ten forty nine, 322 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:47.119 Constable Heidi Stephenson, a twenty three year RCMP veteran officer 323 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:50.680 and Constable Chad Morrison were to be working in Enfield. 324 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:56.079 Morrison was to meet up with Stevenson in nearby Shubenacadi, 325 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.799 and when he spotted workman Whartman's car, he thought it 326 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:04.359 was her. Morrison found out otherwise when Whartman pulled up 327 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:07.960 beside him and opened fire, wounding him, but Morrison managed 328 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:13.839 to escape when shortly after Wharpman spotted Stevenson's car he 329 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.920 rammed into her car head on. He got out and 330 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:19.880 shot Stevenson, then dragged her out of the car and 331 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:26.200 shot her again, then took her gun and ammunition. Joey Weber, 332 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:31.079 father of three, had gone out heading to shoe Beninacady 333 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.680 to run a family errand a witness of some of 334 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:38.720 the actual murder ind or of the car Whartman's set ablaze. 335 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:43.720 Joey Weber is shot and killed by Whartman. He then 336 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:50.480 steals his SUV tracker and continues his murderous journey. At 337 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:53.720 eleven oh six, RCMP post on Twitter that the shooter 338 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:57.920 is traveling south on Highway one oh two, but there 339 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.920 was some confusion in Truro. RCMP office descended on a 340 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:06.200 Sobey's grocery store forty miles away an RCMP dispatcher had 341 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.799 called the Truroa Police department to report that their suspect, 342 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:14.519 Gabriel Whartman, was spotted at a grocery store in truro 343 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:20.200 The municipal police force quickly asked all units to respond 344 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:24.720 and assist RSMP at the store. At that point, Whartman 345 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:28.640 was still believed to be driving a silver Chevy Tracker. 346 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.039 As RCMP had advised on Twitter a few minutes earlier, 347 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.240 he has multiple weapons, the RCMP dispatcher warned Trureau police 348 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:40.640 at eleven twelve am. Officers from TRUROAU reported back a 349 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:42.680 few minutes later to say that the only thing they 350 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:48.440 found at the grocery store was an RCMP emergency response team. 351 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.079 Whartman then travels to an acquaintance of his, a fifty 352 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.480 year old genturist, Gina Goulay. He shoots and kills her 353 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:01.720 and steals her Masda Thie. At eleven twenty three, Warpman, 354 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:04.319 driving the Mazda three, stops at a gas station and 355 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:10.039 then filled the gas up. At eleven twenty six, two 356 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:13.799 RCMP tactical officers arrive at the same station to refuel. 357 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:19.200 One very observant officer recognized warman, and before the gunman 358 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:23.240 could respond, he was shot dead by the RCMP officer. 359 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:27.119 Police found several firearms in the back seat of the 360 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:32.799 Mazda he was driving. The firearms included a rifle, another 361 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:38.039 firearm described only as a semi automatic with the selector 362 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.480 switch on fire, a pistol with one round of ammunition 363 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.680 in the chamber, an empty magazine in one of the 364 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:49.279 guns of which the hammer was cocked and safety was off, 365 00:24:50.119 --> 00:24:53.279 as well as boxes of ammunition and a green metal 366 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:59.799 ammunition can in the front seat. Stevenson's police issued nine 367 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:07.079 men elimited pistol was also among the firearms. Paula Henrana 368 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:11.000 left her work near the gas station in Enfield Sunday 369 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:13.200 morning because she was concerned with the safety of her 370 00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:17.160 step granddaughter, who lived in Porta Peak. She pulled over 371 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:19.240 to the side of the road when she saw dozens 372 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:24.960 of police officers decked out in black vests surround the suv. 373 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:28.920 One officer was on one knee on top of the 374 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:31.279 vehicle and had his assault rifle pointed into the car 375 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:34.920 through the sun roof. Several others were laying down on 376 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:37.279 their stomachs on the pavement with their rifles at the 377 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:39.839 ready and appeared to be aiming at the front door 378 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:44.480 of the Big Stop gas station. Overhead, she saw a 379 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:51.680 helicopter fly by. Sirens blared in the distance. Over an 380 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:57.759 hour earlier, at ten point fifteen am, Nova Scotia Provincial 381 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:02.359 Emergency Management officials had contents acted the RCMP to offer 382 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:06.079 them the use of the public emergency alerting system that 383 00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:10.079 would alert people via their phones and televisions. RCMP and 384 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.960 government officials were still in the process of preparing the 385 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:16.319 alert when they got the news that Wartman had been 386 00:26:16.359 --> 00:26:23.000 shot and killed. News broke nationally about the mass killings 387 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.359 after April twentieth, with more and more details being revealed 388 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:31.599 as RCMP investigated fully twenty three dead, including the killer, 389 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:37.680 three wounded, sixteen crime scenes, Porta Peak and Nova Scotia 390 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:42.160 residents were traumatized. The nation was shocked and desperate for information. 391 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.240 Because of the coronavirus lockdown, journalists and their news agencies 392 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:51.119 were slower to gather information and even get the correct 393 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:55.559 tally of the total dead. The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 394 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:58.720 attempted to instruct the Canadian media not to print the 395 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:01.839 mass murderer's name and photo, so as not to give 396 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:06.359 him the infamy that he would certainly receive As a result, 397 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.960 the Prime Minister responded with an immediate plan to ban 398 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:14.680 fifteen hundred types of semi automatic weapons for sale in Canada. However, 399 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:17.319 of the four guns Wharpman had in his possession, none 400 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:21.279 were obtained legally, and three of them originated in the US. 401 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.240