I Survived Canada’s Deadliest Mass Shooter. Then I Had to Prove It

I Survived Canada’s Deadliest Mass Shooter. Then I Had to Prove It

ON APRIL 18, 2020, Gabriel Wortman murdered thirteen of his neighbours in Portapique, Nova Scotia. He hid in a nearby field overnight and killed nine more people the following day, including a pregnant woman. He died later that morning, after RCMP officers fired on him at a gas station. Lisa Banfield, Wortman’s common-law partner, endured years of violence from Wortman. She escaped with her life the night his shooting rampage began. Six months f…