Families describe tense encounters with RCMP on N.S. mass shooting’s second day
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That morning, on Hunter Road in West Wentworth, shortly after the murders of Alanna Jenkins and Sean McLeod, Const. Brenna Counter drew her carbine rifle on Jenkins’ father and demanded he identify himself as he approached the burned house where his daughter had been killed. He recalled telling arriving firefighters to leave because of potential danger, and then, as he was monitoring the area with his carbine, O’Brien’s daughter — Michaella Scott — arrived and called out, “That’s my mom’s car.”In her interview last year with the commission, Scott said she tried to approach and asked where her mother was, but she was turned back by RCMP officers with guns raised toward her.
In his interview, Fahie said in the second encounter, he explained to Scott “that the victim was her mother, that she was deceased, that it was murder, and that she was not in any pain,” and that he took her name and number and told her to return home to her family.Scott told the commission she was in a state of shock, and that she then drove to her sister’s house.
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