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2020 Nova Scotia shooting

series of shootings in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Summary

2020 Nova Scotia shooting is a mass shooting[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of mass shooting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,392 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nova Scotia[3]
  • Country: Canada[4]
  • Instance of: mass murder[5], spree killing[6]
  • Location: Nova Scotia[7]
  • Located in time zone: UTC−03:00[8]
  • Armament: long gun[9], handgun[10]
  • Start time: April 18, 2020[11]
  • End time: April 19, 2020[12]
  • Point in time: April 2020[13]
  • Number of deaths: 23[14]
  • Number of injured: 2[15]
  • Number of perpetrators: 1[16]
  • Perpetrator: Gabriel Wortman[17]
  • Victim(s): Heidi Stevenson[18]

Why It Matters

2020 Nova Scotia shooting has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ledevoir.com. Retrieved . ledevoir.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . ici.radio-canada.ca. Retrieved . ici.radio-canada.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Jamie7687 · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    End time → —
    Location → Nova Scotia
    Instance of → mass shooting, mass murder, spree killing
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Yle topic id: 18-311568, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/177645081|Nova Scotian joukkoampuminen 2020 (#177645081)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6"
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