Hoooo boy. I feel so bad for all involved but man...had to be pure and utter stress being one of the on duty officers that day.
This is just not going to go well for any of them.
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Nova Scotia's police watchdog says two RCMP officers opened fire at an Onslow, N.S., fire hall while a gunman was rampaging through the province Sunday — but the suspect was not in the area at the time.
Pat Curran, the interim director of the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), said Wednesday it was unclear what the officers were firing at after they pulled up outside the Onslow Belmont Fire Hall around 10:30 a.m. AT.
"At this point we don't know what they were shooting at," he said in an email.
The Onslow Belmont Fire Hall was being used at the time by the Emergency Management Office as a registration area for evacuees from the Portapique Beach area who had fled their community just hours earlier.
Joy McCabe, who lives next to the fire hall, said she looked out Sunday to see a police car pull up and two men dressed like police officers get out. They whipped out their guns and started firing in the direction of the building.
"I ducked down and I yelled at my husband to get down," said McCabe. "I am still scared."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...hall-1.5541302
Also at the bottom of this piece is a video of the gunman about 30 minutes before the shootout that ended his miserable life.