Detailed Portrait Emerges of Gun Acquisitions, Cash Stockpiles of NS Mass Killer

A fire-destroyed property registered to Gabriel Wortman at 200 Portapique Beach Road is seen in Portapique, N.S., on May 8, 2020. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

HALIFAX—A widening portrait of how a Nova Scotia mass killer acquired his weapons and stockpiled cash emerged Wednesday in the latest court-ordered release of documents.

An unidentified witness who knew Gabriel Wortman told police on May 20, “Gabriel must have thought about this for a long time.”