Two police officers who shot at the body of a mass shooting perpetrator at a Nova Scotia gas station say they started firing as the killer raised his RCMP officer’s pistol. Details of how two RCMP officers ended a 51-year-old dentist’s outburst after 13 hours were released last week in interviews and statements gathered as evidence from a public investigation into the April 18-19, 2020 homicides. Const. Craig Hubley, a dog handler, and Const. Ben MacLeod, a member of the emergency response team, was involved in Hubley’s vehicle on the morning of April 19 amid the frantic pursuit of Gabriel Wortman as he continued his assassination in central Nova Scotia. Both testify that they witnessed many deaths when they first responded to the killings in Portapique, NS, and believed that Wortman was determined to continue killing. According to records, Hubley stopped at Enfield, NS, for gas, noticed blood running to the forehead of a man in a car at the adjacent pump, and shouted at MacLeod, “Benny is this,” causing the ERT officer to move. . he quickly got out of the car with his carbine. In a statement, Hubley said he started firing as Wortman pulled a “silver pistol” in his direction and MacLeod told a public investigator he believed the killer was holding an “RCMP general purpose pistol” stolen from a police officer killed earlier. in the day. This Canadian Press report was first published on April 7, 2022.
