Former Police Watchdog Head Denies Directing RCMP Not to Reveal NS Shooter’s Guns

Former Police Watchdog Head Denies Directing RCMP Not to Reveal NS Shooter’s Guns
RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather is questioned by lawyer Josh Bryson at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on July 28, 2022. The Canadian Press/Kelly Clark
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The former director of Nova Scotia’s police watchdog denies telling the RCMP not to release a list of the weapons seized from the gunman who murdered 22 people in April 2020.

Pat Curran—who led the Serious Incident Response Team at the time of the shootings—says he “gave no directives to the RCMP” about the five firearms Gabriel Wortman had in his possession when he was killed by police at a gas station on April 19.