Canadian police revealed that the perpetrator of the massacre that killed 22 people and ended his death on Sunday, had committed his act after a fight with his girlfriend, and the Canadians today commemorated the victims, and the motives are still under investigation.
During a press conference, Darren Campbell, a Royal Cavalry Police official, said that the suspect, Gabriel Wortman, 51, hit his girlfriend after a fight. She ran away and hid in a nearby forest in Nova Scotia, and told the police that he wore a police uniform and drove a fake police car.
Campbell considered that his girlfriend's escape "could be, to a large extent, the catalyst that triggered the chain of events."
The police official admitted that there was a long period of time after the first three killings that included shooting from a car at a woman driving by the side of the road, two drivers he stopped and killed, and several people who burned their homes.
Campbell considered denying the murderer in a police car and costume "definitely complicated things" and giving the suspect "an edge" over the police and the public "and everyone he met during his attacks."
The police are currently looking into making the killer adjustments to his car to match the police cars, where they discovered the place from which he bought the police car light and posters. As for the weapons he bought from Canada and the United States, he also extracted a weapon and ammunition from a policeman who rammed and killed her car.
Moments before that, another policeman was shot and killed by the murderer who set fire to two police cars, kidnapped a car that was passing from the place to drive to a nearby house and kill a woman he knew and replace the police uniform with civilian clothes.
Shortly after, a police officer killed him when he encountered him at a gas station, after an exchange of fire.
The hunt continued for 13 hours, wounding three people, and an investigation is still underway to reveal the attacker's motives.
Canadians across the country commemorated the victims, and they had to set them up online and on television due to the Corona pandemic, as musicians and politicians offered their condolences and expressed their shock at the incident.
In a statement after the attack, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, "I was sadly informed of the insane violence (...) that claimed the lives of many people, including one of the Royal Cavalry police."