The two shooters were RCMP officers who mistakenly assumed Westlake was the killer, mainly because he was wearing a yellow\u002Dand\u002Dorange reflective vest that…
On the morning of April 19, 2020, the emergency management coordinator was at the firehall in Onslow, N.S., as the fire chief was welcoming people evacuated from nearby Portapique, N.S., where a gunman had killed 13 people the night before.
The two shooters were RCMP officers who mistakenly assumed Westlake was the killer, mainly because he was wearing a yellow-and-orange reflective vest that matched the police description of what the suspect was wearing.tap here to see other videos from our teamWestlake’s dramatic account of what happened that day was given to an inquiry investigator on June 15, 2021.
“I was just a fat guy in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing a vest,” he told the inquiry investigator. “I’ve never had malice to the two individuals that pulled the trigger. I want to meet them. I want to ask them how they missed, because I can’t hide behind telephone poles.” “And he’s looking at me and then he ducks behind the car, and I was sure he was getting a gun. And I thought he was going to kill us. I thought he was going to kill others …. And he started running.”
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