Trudeau Offers Condolences as Nova Scotia Shooting Deaths Rise to 19

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday Canada is no place for violence after a gunman fatally shot at least 18 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Sunday.

A gunman disguised as a police officer went on a 12-hour rampage shooting people in their homes, setting fires and killing at least 18 people, including a policewoman, in the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history.

Officials said the suspect, identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was also among the dead in the weekend attack. Police did not provide a motive for the killings.

“Such a tragedy should have never occurred. Violence of any kind has no place in Canada,” Trudeau said.

Trudeau asked the media to avoid mentioning the name of the assailant or showing his picture.

Police began advising residents overnight Saturday in the rural town of Portapique, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Halifax, to lock their doors and stay in their basements.

Several bodies were later found inside and outside one home on Portapique Beach Road, the street where the suspect lived, authorities said.

Bodies were also found at several other locations within about a 50-kilometer (30-mile) area from the neighborhood where the shootings began late Saturday, and authorities believe the shooter may have targeted his first victims but then began attacking randomly. Several homes in the area were set on fire.

Authorities said the suspected gunman wore a police uniform at one point and made his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser.

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