Public hearings set to resume in Nova Scotia mass shooting probe
that she first saw the killer’s replica police cruiser in a news report before she went to work on the second day of the rampage.
In the document released by the public inquiry, Bergerman said she was first notified that something was happening before she went to bed around 11 p.m. on April 18. She added that she was convinced that one of the RCMP cruisers had been stolen, so she called Chief Superintendent Chris Leather to ask whether that was the case.“He confirmed that all of our police cars had been accounted for,” said Bergerman.
“So I was satisfied with what they were trying to do at that point. I never … I’ve never considered Alert Ready,” she said. In the interview document, Bergerman’s testimony appears consistent with what she told the parliamentary committee. She again said that Nova Scotia RCMP only sent information about the killer’s weapons to Lucki and to the deputy commissioner in an April, 23, 2020, email after getting the go-ahead from the head of Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team, Pat Curran.