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At 10:26 p.m. last Saturday, a man drove a vehicle down the only road in and out of Portapique, N.S., heading for the highway.

He was bleeding from a gunshot wound, in urgent need of medical care, and likely going into shock. What terrors must have gone through his mind as police cars drove toward him, the first responders to the worst spree killing in Canada’s history.

These were real police, and the man, who has survived, told them what had incomprehensibly happened. A police car had just driven by in the other direction, toward the beach, and the driver fired at him as they passed on the Portapique Beach Road. He could see the shooter, a middle aged white man, was dressed like an RCMP officer.

Portapique itself was burning down as police arrived, from fires set at seven crime scenes, including houses and outbuildings, permanent homes and summer cottages. About 100 people lived there year round.

There were bodies out on the road in front of a house, and more inside, 13 in all shot dead. Three people were injured and survived, two of them in Portapique.

On Sunday morning, with 19 people already dead, RCMP Const. Chad Morrison was parked in Shubenacadie, between Truro and Halifax, waiting for his colleague Const. Heidi Stevenson, when a police vehicle pulled up. He thought it was her, but it was Wortman who pulled alongside and shot Morrison from the driver’s seat. Morrison drove away, telling dispatch he was heading for medical care. He has survived several gunshot wounds.

At that same time, Stevenson was northbound on Highway 2 when she encountered Wortman coming south. Their cars collided head on, and she engaged him, Campbell said, but he killed her, took her gun and ammunition, and set both their cars ablaze.

Just effing crazy.

https://nationalpost.com/news/when-p...box=1587778986