I live in Western Nova Scotia, on the Bay.
I’m not exactly local: I’m 300 km away (3 hours). I saw the alert for a shooting on my Twitter feed after 11:30 pm last night (11:30 -12 am)
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It was far away, and few details were available. Then around midnight-12:30 I noticed that neighbours started turning their lights on one by one, which is unusual.
This is what I mentioned to another member here.
My neighbour knocked on my door last night/ after 12 am to warn me after the alerts went around. (My lights were on). One neighbour’s son three doors away is an RCMP officer.
Last night my neighbour guessed correctly that the killer’s weakness would be running out of gas. They thought he’d start car-jacking.
But now, during a SOE? There are very few cars in the road, especially at night. The RCMP had blocked him into an area, according to the Twitter feed I posted here.
‘Keep your doors locked, lights on, and have your car fob with you at all times so you can sound the alarm’ was what my neighbour cautioned me to do. I have a dog as well, so I felt safer.
My neighbour has guns. Many people here do.
No sos alerts were made by phone by the RCMP, the alerts were on social media and through the press. SOS alerts may have been helpful as many were asleep as this started to unravel.
They told those close to the areas involved to go into their basements. Call 911 if *anyone* stepped on their property. They told us ‘you may not see the RCMP, but we’re there’.
I don’t have windows in my basement that open. And there’s only one way in and out.
And staying together with neighbours didn’t seem reasonable.
The RCMP was telling us live which area the guy was in. He was far, and the RCMP had blocked off parts of the highways.
We didn’t know what was unfolding. We were told who the suspect was, that he was driving a vehicle very similar to an RCMP’s vehicle,( but that the numbering was off), that he was wearing an RCMP uniform,( but was not an officer), and the areas he was actively in.
I stayed on the main floor. All of my neighbours had their lights on. It was just horrible to think of what he had done, was about to do, and how it would end.
2 1/2 years ago, I ran out of gas close to the location of the shootings at 2:00 am when I moved here. There are gas stations at every exit on the highways around there, but few are open 24 hours—even if you’re using plastic.
Sorry for the rambling post. And I know this is about the victims and their loved ones.
This was just to illustrate what it has been like here during this already tension-heightened time.
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