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Jeezuz murphy....just.......truly no words..

For four hours, Clinton Ellison lay quietly in the freezing woods and prayed the police would come to save him from a gunman ravaging the community of Portapique, N.S.

He had already seen his brother's dead body lying on the side of the road.

Hiding in the woods, he could hear gunshots all around him and popping from fires raging through nearby homes and cars.

"Something right out of a horror movie, worse than a horror movie," Ellison said Wednesday. "It's a nightmare through hell."

His brother and his father waited again. This time, there was no word. Clinton Ellison went out in search for his brother. He walked up the road, flashlight in hand.

"I could see a body laying on the side of the road, as I got closer I could see that it was my brother," he said.

"I got one more step closer and I could see blood, and he wasn't moving. I shut my flashlight off, I turned around and I ran for my life in the dark."

Moments later he turned back to the road. There was a flashlight moving around.

"I ran so hard into the woods. I laid there for at least about four hours hoping and praying that the police would come," he said.

Gunshots and explosions from the fires raged all around him. He didn't dare bring out his cellphone, he said, fearing the light would attract the shooter.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ding-1.5541082