US Edition18-Year-Old Jesse Van Rootselaar Identified as Tumbler Ridge School Shooter
The 18-year-old suspect killed eight people, including a teacher and five students, and wounded more than 25, police said. The suspect had a history of mental health contacts.
- On Feb. 11, 2026, police named Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18-year-old suspect, who was found dead by apparent suicide after the Tumbler Ridge attack that killed nine people.
- Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said police had attended the family residence multiple times for mental health concerns and the suspect first killed a 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old stepbrother.
- At the school, officials reported more than 25 wounded, including two with life-threatening injuries airlifted for care, and seven people killed, including a woman teacher, three 12-year-old female students, and two male students aged 12 and 13.
- The government ordered flags on all government buildings to be flown at half-mast for seven days and closed schools for the rest of the week, as Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to the shooting.
- In context, school shootings are rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws and recently broadened a ban on assault weapons; officials compared the attack in Tumbler Ridge, population 2,700, to Nova Scotia 2020 rampage and Ecole Polytechnique 1989.
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Tumbler Ridge live updates: Family says 12-year-old victim was ‘one of a kind’
Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is in mourning today a day after 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar shot and killed eight people at a residence and nearby school before turning the gun on herself. Follow for live updates.
Who is Jesse Van Rootselaar? What we know about the Tumbler Ridge school shooter
Canadian authorities have identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the person responsible for one of the deadliest school shootings in the country's recent history, a rampage that left nine people dead, including the shooter.
‘Neighbours relying on neighbours’: B.C. MLA says Tumbler Ridge community ‘numb’ after mass shooting
Residents of Tumbler Ridge, the small northeastern B.C. town where police say a shooter killed six children and two adults on Tuesday, have yet to fully process the mass shooting but continue to lean on each other, the community’s MLA says.
Canadian police determined Wednesday that an 18-year-old transgender woman was responsible for the mass shooting in a mining town in the west of the country, with a balance of eight...
Legacy Media and Police Participate in Lie Over Canadian Mass Shooter
Eight people lie dead at the hands of a crazed eighteen-year-old. Most of the victims are teens, shot dead at their school. One was a female teacher. The shooter’s mother and step-brother were also victims. As The Federalist reported on Wednesday, that the shooter was “a mentally ill man cosplaying as a woman.” Some press reports have carefully documented this fact. However, many sources like The New York Times and the Royal Canadian Mounted Pol…
Police identify Canada school shooter, detail history of mental health checks
Canadian authorities said the suspect in Tuesday's deadly school shooting in British Columbia had a history of police visits to her home for mental health checks. They have also amended the death toll in that case. What we know about the suspect Officials with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) identified the suspect as Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, a trans woman. They said she dropped out of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where the shooting …
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