
Under Fire
In June 2014, a lone gunman hunts police officers through the streets of Moncton, New Brunswick, killing three RCMP members and wounding two others before he is caught. This investigation, produced for the 16x9 series, asks why the responding officers were not better equipped to answer the call that day. Officers who were on the ground that night appear on camera with their faces and voices masked, describing the equipment they carried and the training they had received, and comparing both to what the situation actually demanded. The film builds its case around specific gaps: the carbines and body armor some officers lacked, the protocols for an active shooter with a rifle, and the split-second decisions made without adequate cover. Their accounts sit alongside questions about whether the RCMP's national standards left individual detachments exposed. The result is less a recap of the manhunt than an accounting of what failed before the shooting started, told by the people who lived through the consequences of those gaps in real time.