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RCMP identify man who killed wife at N.S. home as retired Mountie

'We’ve looked into this more and have learned that while past employment status is considered personal information under the Privacy Act, we are able to release the information for former RCMP employees'

by · National Post

The RCMP in Nova Scotia has now confirmed a man who shot and killed his wife before taking his own life in a case of intimate partner violence last month was a former member of the RCMP who retired in 2014.

Mounties had originally stated they were bound by the Privacy Act when not releasing any identifying information about the two people found dead in an Enfield home on Oct. 18.

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