Spouse of N.S. gunman describes how he unravelled weeks before mass killing – By Angela MacIvor (CBC News) / March 17, 2022
Warning: details in this story are distressing
In the weeks leading up to the Nova Scotia mass shooting that killed 22 people, the gunman drank excessive amounts of alcohol, buried hundreds of thousands in cash and made unusual comments about evading police and wanting to die, according to his spouse.
Lisa Banfield spent hours recounting her relationship and impressions of Gabriel Wortman to RCMP officers in the days after he went on his murderous rampage in April 2020. The couple had been celebrating their 19th anniversary on the night he first attacked her at their cottage in Portapique, then started randomly killing neighbours and strangers.
She repeatedly told police she believed he was hunting her down after she managed to escape from the replica police car where he had barricaded her to gather more weapons.
“I could hear him yelling my name, I think he was yelling my name and then I could hear him whistling, like, just weird,” Banfield said in her police interview on April 20.
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