Post by Prosay on Apr 19, 2020 18:12:46 GMT -5
wsj.com
Nova Scotia Shooting Rampage Kills at Least 10
Paul Vieira
3 minutes
Updated April 19, 2020 6:50 pm ET
OTTAWA—At least 10 people were dead after a shooting rampage in a rural part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and a suspect was killed in a confrontation with police, Canadian law-enforcement officials said Sunday.
A police officer who responded to emergency calls to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Saturday night was among those killed.
Police said they started receiving emergency calls Saturday night in Colchester County, about 400 miles east of Maine, and found a number of casualties inside and outside a home. They also found houses on fire.
Police said people were killed in several parts of the province. “We don’t have a final count” on the death toll, said Superintendent Chris Leather, head of the RCMP’s criminal investigation in Nova Scotia. “It will certainly be more than 10. How much more I do not know.”
This ranks as one of the worst crime sprees in Canada in years. In April 2018, a man plowed a rented van into people walking along a Toronto thoroughfare, killing 10 and injuring 15.
Supt. Leather said he believed one person was responsible for the deaths in Nova Scotia. “Our officers were involved in terminating the threat.”
At a Sunday afternoon news conference, senior leaders with the RCMP in Nova Scotia said the shooting spree would weigh heavily on citizens of the province, which has a population of just under one million.
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