A senior RCMP officer in Nova Scotia who obtained search warrants for the investigation into the April mass shooting was grilled in court Wednesday about why most of those documents remain heavily redacted. Angela Hawryluk was cross-examined by media lawyer David Coles, who repeatedly asked the officer to justify why large sections of the warrants remain blacked out and beyond public scrutiny. "I had no intention of any of the ITOs being revealed to the public," Hawryluk told the court. "Your position is that any information in the ITOs could compromise the investigation, even though the Crown has released some information?" Police block the highway in Debert, N.S., on April 19, 2020, as part of their effort to locate the gunman.

Source: CBC News August 12, 2020 23:03 UTC