The gunman responsible for the deadly weekend rampage that spanned across Colchester County and the Municipality of East Hants reportedly left a list of would-be victims behind.
Nathan Staples of Glenholme, not far from where the killing spree began in Portapique, told The Globe and Mail that investigators told him Tuesday that his name was found on a list obtained when the RCMP searched the killer’s Portapique property.
Staples did not answer repeated calls to his home Thursday but told the Globe earlier that the gunman was obsessed with police and that the yard of his Portapique home was like a shrine to the RCMP.
The gunman took 22 lives at 16 different crime scenes in a rampage that began late Saturday night and ended Sunday just before noon when police shot him outside the Enfield Big Stop.
The gunman was dressed in an RCMP-like uniform and drove a vehicle that resembled an RCMP cruiser during part of his more than 90-kilometre run from Portapique to Enfield.
Aside from a conversation that he and the gunman had sometime earlier concerning the sale of an RCMP vehicle bought at auction, Staples said he didn’t know why he might have been targeted.
Staples said he was told that he was seventh or eighth on the killer’s list.
