A neighbour of the man who killed at least 22 people last weekend in Nova Scotia says that police found a list the shooter made—and his name was on it.

Nathan Staples, speaking to the Globe and Mail, said police came to his home past midnight on Saturday in a heavily armoured vehicle and told him about the list.

“The investigator said I was seventh or eighth on the list. I didn’t know what to think,” Staples told the Globe. “He came to apologize. He said, ‘We’re sorry we couldn’t have been there quicker.’ That’s when I got angry.”

VICE reached out to Nathan Staples but has not yet received a response. The RCMP would not confirm whether it found a list or that police went to Nathan Staples' home on Saturday evening, saying it was “way too far into the weeds.”

For more than 12 hours from Saturday night until Sunday morning, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman—a wealthy Nova Scotian denturist—travelled over 100 kilometres and killed 22 people, some who were known to him. Among his victims were a teacher, a RCMP officer, a retired firefighter, and two health care workers. Wortman was killed by police outside a gas station Sunday morning.

The motive of the killings is still unknown. Staples told the Globe he didn’t know why he would be on the list—other than he didn’t sell the shooter a retired police cruiser. He described the RCMP’s handling of the situation as a “royal screw-up.”

“How was this allowed to happen?” Staples said. “How could they not stop it? How could this go on for more than 12 hours, when this guy was still out there, shooting people?”

The RCMP’s actions during this timeframe is being strictly scrutinized, especially for not sending out an emergency alert to people’s cellphones that could have saved lives.

Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is also investigating two incidents during the investigation in which officers fired their weapons, including when the suspect was killed Sunday morning. In a separate incident, two officers fired near a fire hall used to register people evacuated from their homes in Portapique. Four people were in the hall at the time.