A look at one of the 16 victims that were killed this weekend in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting
Constable Heidi Stevenson, who hails from Nova
Scotia, was with the RCMP for 23 years. She was a married mother of two children, aged 10 and 13. At one point, she was the media spokesperson for the province’s RCMP force. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said she doesn’t know the circumstances of the fallen officer’s death, but Constable Stevenson was responding to the “active shooter incident.”
Constable Stevenson’s husband, Dean Stevenson, teaches at a Halifax-area high school, said a statement from the President of the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union. “Losing one of our own – it’s like a family member. But also in a province like Nova Scotia, Const. Heidi Stevenson, she would be part of that community. Her kids would be going to school in that community. My heart’s broken," Commissioner Lucki said.
