{"id":60714,"date":"2020-05-13T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=60714"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:27:01","slug":"neighbour-reported-n-s-mass-shooters-domestic-violence-weapons-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/neighbour-reported-n-s-mass-shooters-domestic-violence-weapons-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbour reported N.S. mass shooter’s domestic violence, weapons to police"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former neighbour of the gunman behind last month’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia says she reported his domestic violence and cache of firearms to the RCMP years ago and ended up leaving the community herself due to fears of his violence.<\/p>\n
Brenda Forbes said that in the summer of 2013, she told police about reports that Gabriel Wortman had held down and beaten his common-law spouse behind one of the properties he owned in Portapique, a coastal community west of Truro.<\/p>\n Domestic violence is being examined as a key aspect of the mass shooting, as police have said the rampage began on the night of April 18 after the gunman argued with his common-law spouse and restrained and beat her before she managed to escape into the woods.<\/p>\n He went on to kill 22 people and burn a number of homes before police shot and killed him outside a gas station in Enfield, N.S.<\/p>\n Forbes said her first awareness of Wortman’s domestic violence was shortly after he moved to Portapique in the early 2000s, when his partner came to her door and asked for help.<\/p>\n “She ran to my house and said Gabriel was beating on her and she had to get away. She was afraid,” said the 62-year-old veteran of the Canadian Forces.<\/p>\n