Nova Scotia mass shooter obsessed by spectre of pandemic disaster, violence by Michael Tutton and Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press Posted May 20, 2021 2:56 pm EDT Last Updated May 20, 2021 at 2:58 pm EDT A fire-destroyed property registered to Gabriel Wortman at 200 Portapique Beach Road is seen in Portapique, N.S. on Friday, May 8, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan HALIFAX — The spectre of pandemic-fuelled social chaos and widespread looting appeared to haunt the Nova Scotia mass shooter a month before he carried out his killing rampage of April 18-19, 2020. Twenty-two people — including a pregnant woman — were killed in the 13 hours of shootings and house burnings that began in Portapique, N.S., and carried on in several other communities the next morning.