Canadian police say 8 killed in British Columbia’s Tumbler Ridge shooting
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British Columbia Premier David Eby describes the attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School as an ‘unimaginable tragedy’.
Canada is reeling from one of the deadliest school shootings in the country’s recent history following a mass shooting at a high school in the Canadian province of British Columbia that left at least eight people and the suspected shooter dead.
Officials with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated during an update on Wednesday that the suspected shooter in the attack, which took place the previous day, was an 18-year-old woman named Jesse Van Rootselaar with a record of mental health issues.
“We have a history of police attendance at the family residence. Some of those calls are related to mental health issues,” Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commander of the RCMP in British Columbia, told the press.
Police stated that Rootselaar was born as a biological male and transitioned to a female, but noted that they have not identified a motive for the attack. The suspected attacker took her own life after committing the massacre in Tumbler Ridge in the Pacific province of British Columbia.
The RCMP said that the victims include a 39-year-old female educator, three 12-year-old female students, and two male students between the ages of 12 and 13. Two additional victims, identified as the suspect’s 39-year-old mother and an 11-year-old brother, were found at their family home.
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