A widower whose wife was killed in April's mass shooting in Nova Scotia is the plaintiff named in a proposed class-action lawsuit against the gunman's estate.
The legal application was filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Truro on Tuesday. It alleges the estate of denturist Gabriel Wortman is liable to the families of the victims who lost their lives or were injured due to his actions. A judge must approve the lawsuit before it can proceed to trial.
The representative plaintiff is Nicholas Beaton, whose pregnant wife, Kristen, was among those killed by Wortman as he rampaged through rural Nova Scotia dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica RCMP cruiser.
He shot victims in houses and cars, and burned homes to the ground in several communities. Twenty-two people died in what is one of Canada's worst mass shootings.