The document, known as an information to obtain or ITO, describes how a witness wounded by gunfire told the first officers on the scene that his neighbour, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, had been shooting people while dressed as a Mountie and driving a replica police car.
The witness, whose name is blacked out, said the vehicle in question was “almost identical to the police cars that showed up on the scene.”
The man’s observations are significant because they confirm the Mounties were informed of the killer’s disguise and his replica vehicle early in their response to the shootings and a string of deliberately set fires, which left 13 people dead in Portapique.
The Mounties, however, did not issue a public alert about the vehicle on Twitter until 10:17 a.m. the next day.
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