HALIFAX—An active shooter was on the loose in Portapique, N.S, buildings were burning, and it was left to three RCMP officers to advance into the mayhem on April 18, 2020.
“I’ll be kind of frank with you here. Three guys went into a real serious situation. It doesn’t seem to me like a lot of guys,” one of the officers, Const. Adam Merchant, told an inquiry lawyer in an interview that was recently made public by the commission looking into the shootings.
