Mistaken for Mass Killer, Man Recalls Shot ‘Like a Sonic Boom’ as RCMP Fired at Him

Mistaken for Mass Killer, Man Recalls Shot ‘Like a Sonic Boom’ as RCMP Fired at Him
Two RCMP officers observe a moment of silence to honour slain Const. Heidi Stevenson and the other 21 victims of the mass killings at a checkpoint on Portapique Road in Portapique, N.S. on April 24, 2020. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
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David Westlake is an unbelievably lucky man who still wonders what saved him when two Mounties mistook him for a killer and opened fire.

On the morning of April 19, 2020, the emergency management coordinator was at the firehall in Onslow, N.S., as the fire chief was welcoming people evacuated from nearby Portapique, N.S., where a gunman had killed 13 people the night before.