NS Shooting Inquiry: Senior RCMP Member Learned of Killer’s Replica Car in the News

NS Shooting Inquiry: Senior RCMP Member Learned of Killer’s Replica Car in the News
Lee Bergerman, former assistant commissioner and recently retired commanding officer of the Nova Scotia RCMP, testifies at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Halifax on Aug. 22, 2022. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
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The former RCMP commanding officer in Nova Scotia has told the inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting that she first saw the killer’s replica police cruiser in a news report before she went to work on the second day of the rampage.

In a transcript of Lee Bergerman’s Aug. 2 interview with inquiry lawyers, the former assistant commissioner, who retired in October 2021, said she only had scant details early on April 19 of what had initially transpired the night before in the small rural community of Portapique, N.S.