When Steven Zinck heard on the news that Gabriel Wortman had gone on a killing spree in Nova Scotia, he was surprised, but not that surprised. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “But I also knew what he’d done to me.” Zinck once ran an auto body shop but fell on hard times in 2004 and needed money to hang onto his family home in Mineville, N.S.
Wortman offered to help, but it was a big mistake. Before long, Zinck was evicted from the house his father built and its contents were sold off. “Somehow in the paperwork he got it that he owned the house,” Zinck said. “He just sucked me right in.” The RCMP said Tuesday there were now 22 victims, including a 17-year-old.