TRURO, N.S. — The mass murderer who killed 22 people in late April smuggled guns and large quantities of drugs from the United States “for years” according to RCMP warrants released Monday, July 27.
The Halifax denturist who was fatally shot by an RCMP officer on April 19 was also described in the warrants by unnamed individuals interviewed by police as one who “… builds fires and burns bodies, is a sexual predator and supplies drugs in Portapique and Economy, Nova Scotia.”
The new information, which was unsealed by provincial court Judge Laurel Halfpenny MacQuarrie, said the shooter "smuggled drugs from Maine and had a bag of 10,000 oxycontin and 15,000 Dilaudid from a reservation in New Brunswick.”
The 51-year-old shooter, whom SaltWire Network chooses not to name, carried out his killing spree over a 13-hour period that began in Portapique late on April 18 and ended in Enfield with his own death shortly before noon on April 19. He was driving a mocked-up RCMP vehicle and was wearing a police uniform during most of the rampage, which resulted in Canada’s largest mass murders.
A statement from one informant in the newly unsealed information said the person was “was aware he (the gunman) had smuggled guns and drugs from Maine for years and had a stockpile of guns.”
The information also revealed that the shooter had a “false wall” in his Dartmouth residence and a “secret room” in his Dartmouth denturist clinic.
“People also talked about there being ‘secret hiding spots’ on his properties’ and ‘it is reported that there is a false wall in the garage…’ along with other ‘secret hiding spots… ,’ behind false walls,” the unsealed warrants say.
Previously unsealed information has revealed that the gunman would dress up as a police officer in a full uniform with hat, jacket, and vest, and would “role play.” He was also described as a “sociopath,” “controlling and paranoid” and that he was a funeral director and “licensed embalmer” who would speak of getting rid of bodies, burning and chemicals.
“(The shooter) would tell (redacted) different ways to get rid of a body and had lime and muriatic acid on the property,” a previous warrant says. “The barrels for these would be underneath the deck.”
The shooter also burned a number of residential properties during his killing spree, including two of his own in Portapique.
