{"id":23894,"date":"2020-04-20T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23894"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:25:05","slug":"canada-gunman-kills-at-least-18-in-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23894","title":{"rendered":"Canada Gunman kills at least 18 in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian denturist who murdered at least 19 people during a\u00a0<a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/suspect-gabriel-wortman-claims-several-victims-in-portapique-nova-scotia-rampage-police\">12-hour rampage in Nova Scotia over the weekend<\/a>\u00a0killed his ex and her new boyfriend first and then later executed a married couple in front of their children, according to authorities and local media reports.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/nova-scotia-gunman-gabriel-wortman-allegedly-had-a-lifelong-obsession-with-police-report\">Gabriel Wortman<\/a>, a 51-year-old with a life-long obsession with law enforcement, killed \u201cat least 19\u201d people across 55 miles before dying in a Sunday night shootout with police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. The slayings, which Wortman carried out in a police uniform and with two decommissioned RCMP cruisers, occurred at over a dozen crime scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe the death toll will continue to rise, as Wortman also burned several homes during his murder spree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis ability to move around was certainly aided by the fact he had what looked like a police vehicle and that he was wearing a police uniform,\u201d Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather\u00a0<a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/mass-killings-shooting-community-reaction-1.5538181\">said in a Monday press conference<\/a>. The attack is considered the largest mass shooting in Canadian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian denturist who murdered at&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23895,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions\/23895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}