Warrant Alleges Nova Scotia Mass Killer’s Prior Violence Against Family, Growing Paranoia

RCMP investigators search for evidence at the location where Const. Heidi Stevenson was killed along the highway in Shubenacadie, N.S., on April 23, 2020. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

HALIFAX—Court documents released today describe the violence a Nova Scotia mass killer inflicted on his father years before his rampage as well as the gunman’s growing paranoia before the outburst of killings.

Fifty-one-year Gabriel Wortman took 22 lives on April 18-19 before police killed him at a service station in Enfield, N.S.