Flags on city buildings and at the RCMP detachment have been lowered to half-mast to honour a police constable who lost her life in Sunday’s mass killing on Sunday.
Constable Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of RCMP and a mother of two, was killed along with 18 others in what has become Canada’s deadliest mass shooting since the École Polytechnique massacre, or the Montreal Massacre in 1989, where a lone gunman took the lives of 14 women.
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Maple Ridge Mayor Mike Morden also offered his condolences to the people of Nova Scotia who have been impacted by the tragedy.
“I want to focus our attention on the victims and remember their accomplishments and contributions to their communities,” said Morden.
“In these COVID times when we cannot gather together to express grief and console each other, it is important to honour the lives of these neighbours so far away,” said Mayor Morden.
Morden wished another police officer wounded in the incident a speedy recovery.
“We stand in solidarity with our RCMP colleagues in their grief at the loss of a comrade. Your community stands with you in this difficult time,” said Morden.
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