Hero-of-the-week : member of Amherst police with a real good memory who remembered the police warning RCM & HRM police preferred to forget...

someone in this Amherst NS police force is a hero !

This un-named hero thought the name Gabriel Wortman was familiar, and so right after the spree killings scanned their brain’s memory cells hard and long and then zeroed into their emails from the Spring of 2011.

There it was  : a forgotten-by-design (purged after two years from the electronic databases) all-points police bulletin about a potential cop killer.

Amherst immediately sent the retrieved bulletin to the RCMP —- who kept it secret. Quelle surprise !

Then to HRM police who also kept silent. Plus Quelle surprise !!

And then to Truro PD.

CBC heard about it (via someone leaking from Truro ?) and through a FOI got it easily from the Truro police - the police chief even did an interview.

Thusly, finally, seven weeks later, you and I heard about it....