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B.C. coroner to make Tumbler Ridge announcement amid call for mass shooting inquiry

This morning, the B.C. chief coroner will announce next steps at the legislature building in Victoria about last month's Tumbler Ridge killings.
On last month, the attacker killed her mother and her 5-year-old half-brother at their home, then five pupils and a teacher's aide at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School before dying by suicide.
Records indicate OpenAI flagged and shut down a ChatGPT account related to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025 without notifying police, as Bob Zimmer called for answers on AI's role.
Premier David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, said his government will use `any tools available` and indicated a coroner's inquest or public inquiry will follow police investigations, while federal Conservative MPs called for an independent investigation.
According to The Canadian Press on March 3, 2026, the report states the B.C. chief coroner will announce next steps in the Tumbler Ridge inquiry today.

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