The widower of one of the 22 people killed in Canada’s worst-ever mass shooting has launched a class-action lawsuit against the gunman’s estate.
Nicholas Beaton, the husband of Kristen Beaton and father to their young son and their unborn second child, filed the papers in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on Tuesday.
The lawsuit is seeking damages for “the spouses, children and/or parents” of the victims of Gabriel Wortman, who police have identified as the man who went on a killing spree through several Nova Scotia towns starting on the night of April 18, before he was killed by RCMP on April 19.
The action alleges that Wortman’s estate is liable to the families of the victims and those who were injured in the shootings, along with injuries