A month after the worst killing spree in Canadian history, a resident of Portapique, N.S., says he remains haunted by the events, which put him through “hell,” and is too scared to return home.
HALIFAX -- A month after the worst killing spree in Canadian history, a resident of Portapique, N.S., says the events of that weekend put him through "hell" and he's too scared to return home.
Joudrey has been living in a trailer on a Nova Scotia backroad for the past month -- unable to stomach the thought of returning to his home in Portapique, where the gunman also had a home and where he started his killing spree.Joudrey says it’s too much for him to bear.A good friend of Greg and Jamie Blair -- who were among the 22 victims -- Joudrey spent part of the evening at their home the night of April 18.
“I went for a drive. It’s only a few hundred yards out to Portapique Road … seen a little bit of flame and a SWAT vehicle and I knew it was Gabriel’s house,” recalls Joudrey.Joudrey says he had had run-ins with Wortman before, and decided he didn’t like the 51-year-old denturist. “I thought we all slept through these fires. That’s the only thing I knew took place, was two fires,” says Joudrey. “I knew they were looking for Gabriel, but I didn’t know why.”
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