Slain Rcmp Officer Went Down In A Gunfight With Nova Scotia Mass Shooter Inquiry Hears

New documents released Monday describe in detail what the commission leading a public inquiry believes happened in Shubenacadie, NS, on April 19, 2020, when a gunman disguised as Mountie, who had already killed 19 people, shot and wounded him. RCMP Const. Chad Morrison then killed Stevenson and passerby Joey Webber. All three were shot seven minutes before the killer took off. Details of what happened are presented in interviews, radio logs and 911 transcripts collected by the Mass Accidents Committee. “The whole thing was … hard. It hit me, it hit me very hard,” said the Sergeant. Darren Bernard, one of the first officers to find Stevenson’s body, said in an interview with RCMP in July 2020. Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19. Top row from left: Gina Gulett, Down Gulencin, Joulen Oliver, Frank Gulencin, Sean McLeod, Alana Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O’Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from the top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
The committee is tasked with examining the events of 18 and 19 April 2020, when Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people, including a pregnant woman, during a 13-hour riot in several rural communities. Stevenson was the highest-ranking member of the RCMP squad in Enfield, NS, on the morning of April 19, and directed where her team members should go as a shift supervisor. Throughout the morning, Stevenson saw messages sent to all RCMP members about the gunman’s identity, that he was considered armed and dangerous, and that he was probably using a Ford Taurus that looked like a fully-fledged RCMP cruiser. Around 8:15 a.m. Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, Risk Manager at Operational Communications Center in Bible Hill, NS, told Hants East radio that all members should wear their hard armor during their shift “just in case you come across this vehicle “. About half an hour later, Stevenson asked on police radio if a media announcement had been made about the gunman’s virtual cruiser so that the public could “be on the lookout for it.” The RCMP finally sent a tweet, notifying the public at 10:17 a.m. At 10:39 a.m. Briers asked two Enfield members who had been trained to use a shotgun to go to Colchester. Stevenson had failed the lesson when he had attended it two years earlier, so he sent police officers Austin Como and Chris Gibson. Minutes later, Stevenson heard on the radio that an unknown cruiser had been spotted in the Brookfield community. “Chad, if there is any of the latter, I will go to your place,” Stevenson said on the radio at 10:44 a.m. to Morrison. Head south on Highway 215 towards Shubenacadie where he was parked.

Morrison was shot by a gunman

Morrison was sitting at a crossroads just north of the Shubenacadie River and Highway 2 when he spotted a cruiser coming towards him, heading south. He had his rifle sitting in the passenger seat next to him and had just pulled out his armor. Morrison asked on the radio who was approaching his location, and Stevenson replied that it was her, which made Morrison relax. But the gunman was actually behind the wheel and turned into the side street where Morrison had pulled back to make a U-turn. He pulled over to Morrison’s car, and it “froze for a second or two where I went, not Heidi.” The gunman shot Morrison from his virtual cruiser several times at 10:48 a.m. and later Morrison told police he started screaming as he hit the accelerator and sped off on Highway 2. He hit both guardrails before straightening and heading south. “He broke the glass and I could hear things going out and I felt something in my chest and I felt things happening in my arms and I know I had this wound on my face,” Morrison said. Morrison called that he had been shot by the suspect in a police car and when asked about his injuries he said: “I do not know what, I’m – I’m fine.” He took the westbound ramp to the Shubenacadie Highway and went to the Milford Emergency Health Base. Stevenson never reached Morrison. As he entered the Shubenacadie junction, taking the ramp from the village to Highway 2, the gunman crossed the oncoming lane to enter the one-way ramp and crashed into Stevenson’s police car at 10:49 a.m. The positions of the RCMP victims Const. Heidi Stevenson and Joey Webber appear to meet the gunman at the Shubenacadie junction of Highways 2 and 224. Const. Chad Morrison was parked across the river when he was shot by a gunman a few minutes earlier but survived. (CBC)
Stevenson and the gunman shot at each other and later found 14 bullets from Stevenson’s service pistol on the floor of her car. The commission said that while witness testimonies clashed over whether Stevenson left the car alone or was pulled over by a gunman, forensic evidence suggests he got out of her vehicle and was pointing at the perpetrator during the exchange of gunfire. . The radio he was wearing turned on at 10:49:40 a.m. as well as three more times after the collision, with gunshots being broadcast twice between 10:49 and 10:50 p.m. During that period, the gunman was likely hit in the head with bullet fragments and debris from Stevenson’s return fire, Commission documents said. The RCMP officer who later located the gunman at a gas station in Enfield and killed him noticed a small drop of blood running down the man’s forehead. Elaine Mosher-Whitman and her husband, Gerald Whitman, watched the gunman clash with Stevenson near their home and took pictures. At one point, Mosher-Whitman said she saw Stevenson running back to her car “and shots were fired and he fell.” Joey Webber standing next to his stock car in 2005 after a race at Scotia Speedworld near Enfield, NS Webber was shot and killed by a gunman during a mass attack in April 2020. (Scotia Speedworld Memories / Facebook)
The gunman approached Stevenson and shot her at close range as she stood outside her police car, before picking up her pistol and two cartridges. He did not take her portable radio. Weber, the gunman’s next victim, was taking cooking oil and passing Shubenacadie when he met Stevenson and the gunman. She stopped and got out of his SUV, acting as a “Good Samaritan,” according to witness Elizabeth Small, who was passing by with her husband and stopped when they saw the cruisers collide. Many witnesses reported seeing the gunman pointing Weber in the back seat of his fake cruiser, where he shot him. The gunman then carried all his weapons to Webber’s SUV and pulled out gas canisters from his fake cruiser and set it on fire. “I have never seen anyone seem so simple in my life,” Dean Martin, who was watching from his home north of the scene, told police about the gunman. “It’s like, he was not excited, he was not, he was just taking it out, as if it were a middle day.” The gunman responsible for the mass murder in Nova Scotia in April 2020 walks by Joey Webber’s Ford Escape SUV in Shubenacadie. The gunman also killed Weber and Const. Heidi Stevenson at the intersection of Highways 2 and 224, before stealing Webber’s SUV. (Committee on Mass Accidents)
At 10:55 a.m. The gunman left Webber’s silver SUV junction and headed south on Highway 224 west. Just two minutes later, the police emergency team arrived and found Stevenson. They found her dead and carried her body down the ramp to keep her away from the two burning cruisers. Witness Craig van der Kooi was one of the people watching as the gunman killed Stevenson and Webber and took pictures of the silver SUV that the gunman stole from Webber. He shared the photos with the tactical team members when they arrived and told them it was an older SUV model like the Chevy Tracker, even though it was actually a Ford Escape. The police decided that they should continue to chase the gunman and took off.

The officers stay with Stevenson

Sgt. Milbrook’s Darren Bernard was the next officer to arrive at 11:04 a.m., right in front of the Enfield, Como and Gibson officers. He later said he had not heard anything about the emergency response members on the scene, but found it difficult to hear anything because the radio was in “absolute chaos”. When he climbed the ramp of the junction, there was smoke everywhere, the grass was on fire and it was very difficult to see, Bernard said. He added that the cruisers could not approach due to the explosive heat of the fires. Comeau spotted a body on the ground and Bernard identified Stevenson, who had been his friend for 25 years. “I said, ‘Jesus Christ, this is Heidi,’ and I thought, ‘Did this fucker shoot her here?’” Bernard felt Stevenson’s pulse and did cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but after seeing her injuries he realized that he “left”. RCMP investigators search for evidence on April 23, 2020, at the site where Stevenson was killed along the highway in Shubenacadie, NS (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press)
Bernard sat next to Stevenson’s body for a long time and listened to Const. About half an hour later, Craig Hubley on the radio reported that he had shot the gunman at an Enfield gas station. “I know Heidi very well and … I did not expect to see her that day. That made it difficult for me,” Bernard later said. “It was very shocking, and the wind blew from my sails that day.”

Morrison is hiding behind the EHS warehouse

About the same time, Morrison arrived at the EHS base in Milford ….

title: “Slain Rcmp Officer Went Down In A Gunfight With Nova Scotia Mass Shooter Inquiry Hears " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-25” author: “Beatrice Demski”

New documents released Monday describe in detail what the commission leading a public inquiry believes happened in Shubenacadie, NS, on April 19, 2020, when a gunman disguised as Mountie, who had already killed 19 people, shot and wounded him. RCMP Const. Chad Morrison then killed Stevenson and passerby Joey Webber. All three were shot seven minutes before the killer took off. Details of what happened are presented in interviews, radio logs and 911 transcripts collected by the Mass Accidents Committee. “The whole thing was … hard. It hit me, it hit me very hard,” said the Sergeant. Darren Bernard, one of the first officers to find Stevenson’s body, said in an interview with RCMP in July 2020. Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19. Top row from left: Gina Gulett, Down Gulencin, Joulen Oliver, Frank Gulencin, Sean McLeod, Alana Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O’Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from the top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
The committee is tasked with examining the events of 18 and 19 April 2020, when Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people, including a pregnant woman, during a 13-hour riot in several rural communities. Stevenson was the highest-ranking member of the RCMP squad in Enfield, NS, on the morning of April 19, and directed where her team members should go as a shift supervisor. Throughout the morning, Stevenson saw messages sent to all RCMP members about the gunman’s identity, that he was considered armed and dangerous, and that he was probably using a Ford Taurus that looked like a fully-fledged RCMP cruiser. Around 8:15 a.m. Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, Risk Manager at Operational Communications Center in Bible Hill, NS, told Hants East radio that all members should wear their hard armor during their shift “just in case you come across this vehicle “. About half an hour later, Stevenson asked on police radio if a media announcement had been made about the gunman’s virtual cruiser so that the public could “be on the lookout for it.” The RCMP finally sent a tweet, notifying the public at 10:17 a.m. At 10:39 a.m. Briers asked two Enfield members who had been trained to use a shotgun to go to Colchester. Stevenson had failed the lesson when he had attended it two years earlier, so he sent police officers Austin Como and Chris Gibson. Minutes later, Stevenson heard on the radio that an unknown cruiser had been spotted in the Brookfield community. “Chad, if there is any of the latter, I will go to your place,” Stevenson said on the radio at 10:44 a.m. to Morrison. Head south on Highway 215 towards Shubenacadie where he was parked.

Morrison was shot by a gunman

Morrison was sitting at a crossroads just north of the Shubenacadie River and Highway 2 when he spotted a cruiser coming towards him, heading south. He had his rifle sitting in the passenger seat next to him and had just pulled out his armor. Morrison asked on the radio who was approaching his location, and Stevenson replied that it was her, which made Morrison relax. But the gunman was actually behind the wheel and turned into the side street where Morrison had pulled back to make a U-turn. He pulled over to Morrison’s car, and it “froze for a second or two where I went, not Heidi.” The gunman shot Morrison from his virtual cruiser several times at 10:48 a.m. and later Morrison told police he started screaming as he hit the accelerator and sped off on Highway 2. He hit both guardrails before straightening and heading south. “He broke the glass and I could hear things going out and I felt something in my chest and I felt things happening in my arms and I know I had this wound on my face,” Morrison said. Morrison called that he had been shot by the suspect in a police car and when asked about his injuries he said: “I do not know what, I’m – I’m fine.” He took the westbound ramp to the Shubenacadie Highway and went to the Milford Emergency Health Base. Stevenson never reached Morrison. As he entered the Shubenacadie junction, taking the ramp from the village to Highway 2, the gunman crossed the oncoming lane to enter the one-way ramp and crashed into Stevenson’s police car at 10:49 a.m. The positions of the RCMP victims Const. Heidi Stevenson and Joey Webber appear to meet the gunman at the Shubenacadie junction of Highways 2 and 224. Const. Chad Morrison was parked across the river when he was shot by a gunman a few minutes earlier but survived. (CBC)
Stevenson and the gunman shot at each other and later found 14 bullets from Stevenson’s service pistol on the floor of her car. The commission said that while witness testimonies clashed over whether Stevenson left the car alone or was pulled over by a gunman, forensic evidence suggests he got out of her vehicle and was pointing at the perpetrator during the exchange of gunfire. . The radio he was wearing turned on at 10:49:40 a.m. as well as three more times after the collision, with gunshots being broadcast twice between 10:49 and 10:50 p.m. During that period, the gunman was likely hit in the head with bullet fragments and debris from Stevenson’s return fire, Commission documents said. The RCMP officer who later located the gunman at a gas station in Enfield and killed him noticed a small drop of blood running down the man’s forehead. Elaine Mosher-Whitman and her husband, Gerald Whitman, watched the gunman clash with Stevenson near their home and took pictures. At one point, Mosher-Whitman said she saw Stevenson running back to her car “and shots were fired and he fell.” Joey Webber standing next to his stock car in 2005 after a race at Scotia Speedworld near Enfield, NS Webber was shot and killed by a gunman during a mass attack in April 2020. (Scotia Speedworld Memories / Facebook)
The gunman approached Stevenson and shot her at close range as she stood outside her police car, before picking up her pistol and two cartridges. He did not take her portable radio. Weber, the gunman’s next victim, was taking cooking oil and passing Shubenacadie when he met Stevenson and the gunman. She stopped and got out of his SUV, acting as a “Good Samaritan,” according to witness Elizabeth Small, who was passing by with her husband and stopped when they saw the cruisers collide. Many witnesses reported seeing the gunman pointing Weber in the back seat of his fake cruiser, where he shot him. The gunman then carried all his weapons to Webber’s SUV and pulled out gas canisters from his fake cruiser and set it on fire. “I have never seen anyone seem so simple in my life,” Dean Martin, who was watching from his home north of the scene, told police about the gunman. “It’s like, he was not excited, he was not, he was just taking it out, as if it were a middle day.” The gunman responsible for the mass murder in Nova Scotia in April 2020 walks by Joey Webber’s Ford Escape SUV in Shubenacadie. The gunman also killed Weber and Const. Heidi Stevenson at the intersection of Highways 2 and 224, before stealing Webber’s SUV. (Committee on Mass Accidents)
At 10:55 a.m. The gunman left Webber’s silver SUV junction and headed south on Highway 224 west. Just two minutes later, the police emergency team arrived and found Stevenson. They found her dead and carried her body down the ramp to keep her away from the two burning cruisers. Witness Craig van der Kooi was one of the people watching as the gunman killed Stevenson and Webber and took pictures of the silver SUV that the gunman stole from Webber. He shared the photos with the tactical team members when they arrived and told them it was an older SUV model like the Chevy Tracker, even though it was actually a Ford Escape. The police decided that they should continue to chase the gunman and took off.

The officers stay with Stevenson

Sgt. Milbrook’s Darren Bernard was the next officer to arrive at 11:04 a.m., right in front of the Enfield, Como and Gibson officers. He later said he had not heard anything about the emergency response members on the scene, but found it difficult to hear anything because the radio was in “absolute chaos”. When he climbed the ramp of the junction, there was smoke everywhere, the grass was on fire and it was very difficult to see, Bernard said. He added that the cruisers could not approach due to the explosive heat of the fires. Comeau spotted a body on the ground and Bernard identified Stevenson, who had been his friend for 25 years. “I said, ‘Jesus Christ, this is Heidi,’ and I thought, ‘Did this fucker shoot her here?’” Bernard felt Stevenson’s pulse and did cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but after seeing her injuries he realized that he “left”. RCMP investigators search for evidence on April 23, 2020, at the site where Stevenson was killed along the highway in Shubenacadie, NS (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press)
Bernard sat next to Stevenson’s body for a long time and listened to Const. About half an hour later, Craig Hubley on the radio reported that he had shot the gunman at an Enfield gas station. “I know Heidi very well and … I did not expect to see her that day. That made it difficult for me,” Bernard later said. “It was very shocking, and the wind blew from my sails that day.”

Morrison is hiding behind the EHS warehouse

About the same time, Morrison arrived at the EHS base in Milford ….