The public inquiry into Nova Scotia's mass shooting is focusing on the RCMP police car the killer drove and the police gear he acquired.
The inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia released more details Monday about missteps the RCMP made as investigators tried to identify the killer's vehicle early in his 13-hour rampage.
For the first time, the inquiry revealed Monday that early on the first night, a senior Mountie was told the suspect owned several decommissioned police cars. At 10:32 p.m., as three officers were searching for the gunman on foot, Rehill told another senior Mountie: "They're saying someone in a police car is shooting people. But we don't think it's a police car. I think somebody is mixed up."
On another front, an oversight early in the investigation led the Mounties to believe the killer owned only one Ford Taurus Interceptor. As the search for the killer continued through the first night, RCMP officers in Portapique found one Taurus at the killer's summer residence, which had been set on fire before he left the village.
By 4:35 a.m. senior RCMP officers conducted a briefing at their command post in Great Village, N.S. In notes provided to the commission, Staff Sgt. Steve Halliday -- the operations officer in the district -- stated that three of the gunman's Tauruses had been found: the snow-covered one and two torched vehicles in Portapique.
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