Officials reviewing Canada's worst mass shooting called for police reforms, stricter gun safety regulations and better public communication after an investigation found many shortcomings in authorities' response to the incident in 2020
In April 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police car, shot and killed 22 people in a 13-hour rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, before police killed him at a gas station about 90 km from the site of his first killings in Portapique.
It found the RCMP was unprepared and untrained to handle the scale of the incident, and mismanaged internal as well as public messaging. Interim RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme, who said he had not read the report, promised to act on the recommendations "in a manner that is transparent to the victims, survivors and their families."HOPEFUL"I think everybody's always going to have that bit of skepticism about whether it'll get done properly or not but ... I'm hopeful with everything I've heard so far," he said.
The inquiry also found that Wortman illegally owned at least five firearms, including three smuggled into Canada from the United States, that could have been prevented with better police oversight.
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