US EditionPolice name suspect in Canada school shooting as 18-year-old Jesse van Rootselaar
Jesse Van Rootselaar killed nine people, including a teacher and students, before dying by suicide; over 25 others were wounded in one of Canada's deadliest shootings, police said.
- 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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Another trans shooter: 8 killed in Canada school shooting,...
A total of eight people were killed -- most of them at a school -- and more than two dozen were wounded, after a shooter opened fire on Tuesday in a small community in Canada's British Columbia. Officials had earlier said nine people were killed before revising the death toll. The suspected shooter -- identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar -- is dead from what is believed to be a self-inflicted injury, according to the Royal Canadian Mou…
The Canadian police have identified the suspect for the nine-time murder in the remote place of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia as an eighteen-year-old person who previously had mental problems and reported to the police with these problems, according to the world media.
The Suspect in the Shooting that Killed Eight People in Canada Was an 18-Year-Old Transgender Woman.
Twenty-seven others were injured in the attack, two of them of extreme gravity at a school on the Pacific coast of Canada
What we know about the Canadian school shooter
Canadian police on Wednesday identified the suspect behind the deadly school shooting in British Columbia as an 18-year-old transgender woman who had a history of mental health issues. The suspect took her own life at the scene of the crime and is thought to have acted alone.
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