There was a murderous gunman on the loose in a wooded area of rural Nova Scotia.
He’d already killed 13 people and set several homes ablaze by the time police emergency response units arrived on the scene.
But hours after the first 911 calls came in on the evening of April 18, Nova Scotia RCMP still hadn’t deployed a helicopter in the skies above Portapique to search for the killer. This has prompted policing experts and victims’ family members to criticize the force’s response to the shootings.
The RCMP, meanwhile, says its only Atlantic-based helicopter, stationed in Moncton, N.B., was undergoing routine maintenance at the time of the shootings and was unavailable to police.
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