桑德拉·麦卡洛克（Sandra McCulloch）于2022年5月11日向大众伤亡委员会讲话。
2020年4月19日上午，桑德拉·麦卡洛克（Sandra McCulloch）在家，与她的两名学龄前儿童一起玩。
麦卡洛克昨天对大众伤亡委员会说：“当我们在后院玩时，我随身携带手机，拍照。”
McCulloch lives an eight-minute drive from the Elmsdale PetroCan, where just at that moment, the man who had killed 22 people in a 13-hour murder spree pulled up to one of the pumps in a failed attempt to get gas. (In response to the ongoing emergency, the clerk had turned off the pumps, and neither the killer nor two RCMP officers who had pulled up at an adjacent pump could get gas; both vehicles drove away.)
“I get a text message from a friend at 11:25 telling me of the direction to stay inside and lock doors, and that there was an active shooter in the area,” said McCulloch. “She received a call from a friend of hers who had family who were RCMP members, and they conveyed a private alert to their loved ones.”
“So that’s how I learned of the mass casualty event — not through Twitter, not through Facebook, not through Alert Ready, but because I was lucky to have a friend who had a member of the RCMP as a family member, who was alerting their loved ones.”
麦卡洛克（McCulloch）是帕特森法律（Patterson Law）的律师，该律师代表委员会的许多谋杀受害者家庭。她在谈论加拿大皇家骑警在谋杀狂潮期间发出紧急警报警告公众的问题。
麦克洛克指出,新斯科舍Emergency Management Office (EMO) had in the years before the mass murders tried to give the police forces in the province, including the RCMP, direct access to the emergency alert system so that police could initiate an alert without the involvement of the EMO. The executive director of the EMO, Paul Mason, had specifically named an “active shooter” as a potential reason why the police should have such access, but the RCMP and the other police forces declined the offer.
Tuesday, Mason told the commission that when EMO staff became aware of the murders early in the morning of April 19, 2020, they were preparing for and expecting a request from the RCMP that an alert be issued, and when that request didn’t come, staff tried to contact the RCMP suggesting that an alert be issued, but the suggestion went nowhere.
In a Feb. 15, 2022 interview with commission investigators, Mason expressed his frustration:
但是归根结底，它[发出警报]并没有跨越他们的[加拿大皇家骑警]的思想。一方面，我的意思是，在这种情况下，警察以前曾经没有使用过它，因此我可以在某种程度上看到它。但是，另一方面，拥有该系统，并进行所有讨论，测试以及其他所有内容，您知道，我有些惊讶，尤其是在持续时间持续的地方。就像，如果它已经超过一个小时，那只是一些疯狂的活动，我可以看到更多。But, and once again, I’m not trying to Monday morning quarterback, but I find it surprising you could have an event go on from like 10:30 or whatever on a Saturday night til 11:30 on Monday — sorry, the Sunday morning — and nobody thought about an alert until we called them. And then I know there was discussion in the media that we were working on a message but that’s not the case. And I’m sure we’ll go through it in the timeline, but basically we couldn’t get a hold of anyone.
I mean, once again, I mean I understand it must have been extremely busy so I’m not trying to be critical, but we couldn’t get a hold of anybody to decide whether or not to issue an alert. That’s what happened.
McCulloch said that victims Tom Bagley, Kristen Beaton, Heather O’Brien, and Joey Webber all had cell phones with them when they were gunned down.
They had received no emergency alert.
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