A man who was put up for adoption in the U.S. told RCMP that his brother, the Nova Scotia gunman, shared stories about his ‘awful’ upbringing
After the older brother he had met for the first time 10 years earlier killed 22 Nova Scotians in 2020, a Massachusetts man described his sibling to police as paranoid and said he harboured dark thoughts.
The interview transcript published Tuesday by the public inquiry into the killings includes Samuelson’s story of meeting his biological family for the first time in 2010, 40 years after he was put up for adoption. It was Samuelson who initiated the contact at the urging of his wife. “He was on a tear, he was like so pissed off you know he just wanted to explode on his childhood and how bad it was,” Samuelson told the RCMP.
His biological parents, Paul and Evelyn Wortman, visited the United States to meet Samuelson. Then, in the summer of 2010, Samuelson and his wife travelled from their home in Massachusetts to the Maritimes to see more of the family he had never met. This trip, which included a stay in Portapique, was the first time Samuelson spent time with his brother in person.
They were shown more than 10 weapons that were spread out throughout the residence, Samuelson said, describing them as “hidden in plain sight.” This led Samuelson to believe the shooter was paranoid.
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