US EditionMass killer had no specific target, was 'hunting' in Tumbler Ridge school: RCMP
RCMP released the suspect's image to correct misinformation and urged sharing only verified details amid ongoing investigations into the mass shooting.
- On Tuesday, Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18-year-old suspect, killed family members at the home before entering Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where six people—five children aged 12 and 13 and an education assistant—were dead.
- Authorities said the killer was not targeting specific people and was instead 'hunting,' engaging anyone she encountered, according to RCMP investigators.
- Police have interviewed more than 80 students, educators and first responders; two children remain seriously injured and hospitalized while four guns were seized, two from the family home and two from the school.
- Forensic work is underway at the school and autopsies on the eight victims and the shooter are expected by the end of the weekend, while Prime Minister Mark Carney and other national leaders attended the community memorial site in Tumbler Ridge.
- RCMP says the primary shotgun used at the school had never been seized, and investigators are trying to identify its owner and the source of all four firearms used earlier this week.
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Tumbler Ridge School Shooter Was ‘Hunting’ in Random Attack, RCMP Say in Update
RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald says the shooting at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School wasn’t targeted. “In speaking with investigators, there was no specific targeting of any individuals,” McDonald said in an update on Feb. 13. “This suspect was, for lack of a better term, hunting. They were prepared and engaging anybody and everybody they could come in contact with.” The shooting claimed the lives of eight victims at the school and a…
Tumbler Ridge: A high school and health centre side by side
The town of Tumbler Ridge, B.C. — now the site of one of Canada’s worst mass shootings — is a tight-knit community of only 2,500 people. The town is so compact that its high school, where most victims were killed, and health centre are located next to each other. The Globe’s Alanna Smith explains the scale of the town and the sense of community upholding it amid tragedy.
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Mass killer had no specific target, was 'hunting' in Tumbler Ridge school: RCMP
TUMBLER RIDGE — Officers from the five-person RCMP detachment in Tumbler Ridge arrived at the community’s secondary school on Tuesday to sounds of fire alarms and a voice yelling from a window that the shooter was upstairs.
Four weapons were seized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as part of the mass killing investigation at Tumbler Ridge.
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Killer had no specific target in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., school, but was 'hunting': RCMP
TUMBLER RIDGE — RCMP in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., say they don't know where the primary gun used in a mass school shooting earlier this week came from.
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