A public inquiry heard Wednesday that the Nova Scotia gunman who killed 22 people in 2020 probably shot himself in the head within seconds of being shot by two police officers. Dr. Matthew Bowes, the county chief medical examiner, testified that the best explanation for a killer’s head injury was that he threw a bullet in his temple, and also said he may have survived the injury for “minutes” at Enfield. , NS, scene. Bowes said the gunshot wounds were caused by RCMP police officers who opened fire shortly after 11:24 p.m. on April 19, 2020, caused damage to the killer’s main organs that “would normally kill a person in seconds”. As a result, Bowes’s written report of October 6, 2020 states that the death of Gabriel Wortman, a 51-year-old dentist, occurred because police shot him instead of committing suicide. The forensic evidence released by the investigation shows that the pistol used by the killer to shoot himself belonged to Const. Heidi Stevenson, who was killed by the perpetrator after driving her patrol car earlier that morning. Officers Ben MacLeod and Craig Hubley told investigators in interviews that they saw the killer pick up a silver pistol and this prompted them to shoot at him. MacLeod said in an interview that “despite the blow (the perpetrator) was able to bring the pistol to his temple”, he added that he was unable to determine if the killer had actually shot himself. This Canadian Press report was first published on April 13, 2022.
