In the weeks leading up to the Nova Scotia mass shooting that killed 22 people, the gunman drank excessive amounts of alcohol, buried hundreds of thousands in cash and made unusual comments about evading police and wanting to die, according to his spouse.
Lisa Banfield spent hours recounting her relationship and impressions of Gabriel Wortman to RCMP officers in the days after he went on his murderous rampage in April 2020. The couple had been celebrating their 19th anniversary on the night he first attacked her at their cottage in Portapique, then started randomly killing neighbours and strangers.
She repeatedly told
