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A timeline of how the Tumbler Ridge shootings unfolded
Eighteen-year-old suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people and herself; 27 others were injured in the deadliest Canadian school shooting since 2020, police said.
- On Tuesday, police received an active-shooter call at about 1:20 p.m., and authorities say killings at a residence occurred first before the suspect went to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
- The suspect's background shows prior mental-health contacts and past detention under the Mental Health Act; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Jesse Van Rootselaar began transitioning about six years ago.
- When police reached the school, they found multiple victims and reported shots fired in their direction, evacuating about 100 students and staff, authorities said.
- Authorities later corrected the death toll to eight victims plus the suspect, including a 39-year-old teacher, five students ages 12 to 13, and the suspect's mother and 11-year-old stepbrother, while more than 25 people were wounded.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney ordered flags at half-mast for seven days, saying `I join Canadians in grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today`, while District of Tumbler Ridge urged reliance on official updates.
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Jesse Van Rootselaar had an expired firearms license, and her weapon had previously been confiscated but later returned.
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For years, horror and distance were the reaction of most Canadians to school shootings in the United States. Those shootings belonged to a different nation and culture, not to Canada. That divide vanished with the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that killed eight people and injured 25.Tumbler Ridge is a mining town of roughly 2,400 people in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, so remote that cellphone service cuts out about 3…
The suspect, identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, was found dead at the crime scene.
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