Killer’s Spouse Must Speak at Nova Scotia Mass Shooting Probe: Families

Michael MacDonald, chair, flanked by fellow commissioners Leanne Fitch, left, and Kim Stanton, responds to Sandra McCulloch, right, a lawyer with Patterson Law representing some family members, at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on March 2, 2022. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

HALIFAX—The public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting that left 22 people dead heard today from lawyers representing the victims’ families, who said the commission must call the spouse of the killer to testify under oath.

The commission has tabled summaries about how the first night of the killings on April 18, 2020, are thought to have occurred.