Did Gabriel Wortman intend to mass murder bus riders, if he had made it into the city ?

trying to kill a child just for standing too close to your clinic is a RED ALARM example of ’Leakage’ from a potential ‘Injustice Collector’ mass killer says Mary Ellen O’Toole

Matt M is an industrial salesman in Burnside now, but back then he was just a kid when Gabriel Wortman began to beat him to death, a total stranger, simply because Matt from the North End and the working class-oriented bus stop he was waiting at were “too close” to Wortman’s brand new toney denture clinic.

‘Toney’ only in Wortman’s ego-swollen brain.

Because long time residents of Dartmouth - and I count myself one - have always seen both sides of Portland Street along the 150 metres stretch between Maitland and Canal as the least attractive part of the 6000 metre long street.

‘Tawdry’, and ‘sad’, and ‘see better days’ is the words we would use - both to describe most of the older buildings in that stretch and Wortman’s newly owned clinic , particularly back in 2001.

Wortman never proffered proof that Matt had damaged his clinic or attempted a break-in : it was Gabriel who was charged with criminal assault, not Matt for property damage.

I could easily have been Matt, as I have waited for a  Dartmouth North-bound bus at that stop many a time.

It is almost impossible to wait there and not be “too close” to Wortman property. The clinic has zero setback from the side walk, the bus stop sign must go where a utility pole is available and a driveway not blocked.

I surmise that the real reason for this “disproportional outburst of extreme violence for such a trivial imagined slight”, to paraphrase Mary Ellen O’Toole, the world’s leading profiler of mass killers, is that Gabriel Wortman hated buses all his life with a passion, a passion only an ‘injustice collector’ could  really grow & fester.

Because you have heard GW grew up in Riverview, and you have driven through downtown Riverview, you think you understand his milieu.

 But like Halifax, the City of Riverview includes a lot of countryside and Gabe’s rural home was 5 miles from the downtown high school : it was a long school bus everyday  —— or a set of wheels.

His distain for buses all began when GW was forced to take a bus to school everyday when he was too young to drive. As lifelong injustice collector and a guy who tried to avoid social exchanges with others at all costs unless it was to his benefit, the cheek to jowl school buses were pure hell .

Oh, the endless imagined slights he must of endured : the usual male response to a casual sick male putdown is to just sling an even darker aspersion back, but young Gabe could never ever let even the most casual of taunts go.

He grew to despise all buses, with their annoying collectivity all herded together, and admired only those with their own individual wheels.

 The very minute Gabe could get his beginner’s license, he refused to take the bus to school anymore and drove his off-road dirt bike, on the road, all the way to school, everyday and in all kinds of weather.

A behavior so unique that it became the only thing most of his classmates remembered about him 35 years later.

His huge collection of cars and motorized bikes and motorized boats has now become infamous : not for Gabriel the 21st century’s trendy adult bicycle. He avidly disdained shanks’ mare or pedalling a bike : he was always the master and the motor was always his slave.

Above all, it allowed him to move about totally alone , away from the world and its annoying people, alone with his brooding evil thoughts of  “The Day Of Final Revenge” ...