The morning she was killed, Gina Gule told her daughter she was afraid of a man in a murderous frenzy in Nova Scotia. A few minutes later, she started breaking the glass on her side door. Ms Goulet was watching the news of the manhunt for Gabriel Wortman, a fellow dentist who had already killed 21 people before boarding a stolen SUV behind her house on April 19, 2020. She shared her latest messages with her daughter. on Wednesday, through a public inquiry into the mass shooting, revealed that she was concerned that the gunman knew her address. Just before the shooting, Ms Goulet told her daughter to lock her doors and said it was no surprise that the killer knew how to make a copy of an RCMP car – something police had known since last night, but only shared publicly. at 10:17 a.m. that morning. Nova Scotia mass murderer likely shot himself in the head as police opened fire, chief medical examiner says Nova Scotia mass shooter smiles as he passes RCMP before the frenzy continues, investigation hears “He knows where I live. I hope they catch him,” Goulet sent a message to her daughter. “I’m nervous. I hope the roads start to close.… Like I said, he’m a smart man. Almost too smart.” Ms Goulet, a cancer survivor who had previously turned down a job offer from a gunman, was fatally shot while hiding in a bathroom at her home outside Shubenacadie, NS. The gunman, who also shot one of her dogs, stole her gray Mazda 3, and threw pieces of the RCMP fake suit as she left. Investigators heard that the killer had driven past the woman’s home along a rural highway after killing RCMP police officer Heidi Stevenson and passerby Joey Webber a few minutes earlier. She recognized her home, made a U-turn and drove back. Ms. Goulet was the latest victim of mass shootings, the deadliest in Canadian history. According to a summary released by the investigation, Ms. Goulet tried to call her daughter Amelia Butler at 10:58 a.m., but when Ms. Butler answered, she did not hear her mother’s voice at the other end. Mrs. Butler called frantically 16 times before driving to her mother’s house, where her husband found the body. Half an hour after Ms Goulet’s murder, the gunman’s rage would finally end: He was killed after he stopped for fuel at an Irving gas station in Enfield, NS. got up next to her but did not recognize him after she had changed clothes. The investigation revealed that the gunman shot himself in the temple when he was confronted by two RCMP tactical officers. He used an RCMP pistol he had stolen from Officer Stevenson, whom he had killed in a head-on collision earlier that morning. Gina Gulet in a photo without a date. Brochure The two RCMP officers had also stopped for petrol when one noticed that the driver of the vehicle at the next pump was bleeding from the front. An autopsy later confirmed that the injury came from a bullet fired by Officer Stevenson that hit him in the forehead, according to the investigation. Officer Craig Hubley quickly identified the driver as the gunman from photos released by police. “Benny, that’s it,” he told his companion, Police Officer Ben McLeod. Within seconds of getting out of their SUV, they unloaded 23 rounds of ammunition in the stolen car driven by the gunman, firing through the passenger window and front windshield. By the time police removed the killer from the vehicle and handcuffed him, he was already dead. Dr Matthew Bowes, Chief Medical Examiner for Nova Scotia, said in the investigation that the cause of death was multiple gunshots to his chest and stomach, which were fired by police. Under cross-examination by a lawyer representing the victims’ families, he acknowledged that the gunman would “probably” have died only from the shooting he caused, but said this would not necessarily be immediate. Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation, the RCMP members’ union, said Wednesday’s hearing showed that the actions of police officers Hubley and MacLeod had saved many lives. The union continued to respond to criticism of how the RCMP handled its response to the mass shootings and the manhunt. “There was a lot of armchair and unfair criticism of what our members did or did not do during and after those 13 hours. “We know that every member has risen to the occasion, with the information available at the time, in an incredible and truly unthinkable situation, risking his life to protect others in his communities,” Sauvé said in a statement. Commission Adviser Anna Mancini speaks in Halifax on April 13 during the Mass Casualty Commission investigation into the mass killings in rural Nova Scotia. Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press The RCMP also called on the medical examiner to look into a report on the death of Heather O’Brien, one of the victims of the gunman who was killed on the second day of the attack. Ms. O’Brien’s family had previously accused the RCMP of declaring her dead very quickly and shared Fitbit watch data indicating that her heart continued to beat for hours after she was shot. In his testimony on Wednesday, Dr. Bowes challenged the suggestion that the Fitbit was a reliable indicator. Mrs O’Brien survived and could have been saved. She said her four gunshot wounds would have killed her “quickly and finally” and she would not have recovered. Wednesday’s hearing ended with submissions by lawyers from the victims’ families. Joshua Bryson, a lawyer for Joy and Peter Bond’s relatives, told the investigation that the “trauma information” approach adopted by the investigation was used to limit witness testimony, making it difficult for the commission to carry out its mandate. . He blamed the RCMP’s response to the mass shootings as disorganized and trivial, including unexplained delays in transmitting 911 calls to police on the ground and sending police to murder scenes. “These are lives in a mass loss event,” Mr Bryson said. “These delays are simply unacceptable.” The Morning and Afternoon Newsletters are compiled by Globe editors, giving you a brief overview of the day’s most important headlines. Register today.
