The shooter killed nine more people on day two of his rampage. It’s this second stage that families of the dead assert need not have happened
Instead, RCMP relied entirely on social media and press releases to radio and TV.
“If you had said to me on April 19, ‘What’s Alert Ready?’ I wouldn’t have been able to answer you,” RCMP Supt. Dustine Rodier said in live testimony this week. In the final hours of the massacre, Nova Scotia’s Emergency Management Office had been offering to craft an alert, but the gunman was killed before they could get through to RCMP comms managers.Photo by Nova Scotia RCMPMany of the first 911 calls from Portapique made sure to mention that the shooter was driving a replica police car.
Police were told of the detail by 8 a.m., but it wasn’t until 10:17 a.m. that they first told the public about the car. Critically, two victims, Heather O’Brien and Kristen Beaton, were killed while conferring on their smartphones with friends and family about the news of an at-large active shooter. Both women were not aware that the killer was impersonating a police officer until was too late. A third potential victim, meanwhile, was able to safely barricade in his home that morning due to the fact that he just happened to know that the shooter owned replica police cruisers.
Lia Scanlan, director of strategic communications for the Nova Scotia RCMP, testifies at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass murders, on June 8, 2022.After receiving an image of the car, it took about 90 minutes for the RCMP communications team to draft this first tweet.
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