A decade before he perpetrated one of the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history, gunman Gabriel Wortman inherited a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle from the estate of a deceased friend, Tom Evans. Wortman used the weapon during the killing spree. Details of the decades-long relationship between the two men are revealed in court documents, property and mortgage records, and interviews with people who knew them both.
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