Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the mass shooting in Nova Scotia as senseless violence and says as a country, it’s moments like these we come together to support one another.

At least eighteen people have died including RCMP officer Constable Heidi Stevenson, a 23 year veteran of the force and mother of two. Another RCMP officer is in hospital being treated for non-life threatening injuries.

The suspect was identified as 51 year old Gabriel Wortman, a denturist, who was killed by police. It has been reported that Wortman may have been disguised as a police officer driving a vehicle that looked like an RCMP cruiser.

The shooting began Saturday night and the alleged shooter may be linked to not only carnage but fires being set and the crime seen which started in Portapique appears to extend about a 100 kilometres and ended in a stand off with police outside Halifax.