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Retired Reverend Shares Forgiveness After 1999 Alberta School Shooting
Dale Lang, who lost his son in the 1999 Taber shooting, highlights forgiveness as essential to healing and offers hope amid recent Canadian school shootings.
- Twelve-Year-Old Kylie Smith was identified by her father as one of the students killed in the Tuesday school shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School that left nine dead.
- Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, with fewer than 175 students, is part of a tightly knit town where families of the victims know each other personally, according to Kevin Matthews.
- Younge urged people to focus on the victims, not the shooter, saying online speculation about the shooter's identity compounded his family's suffering and recalling last seeing his daughter that morning.
- Hundreds gathered Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge's main square, lighting candles and laying photos of victims, as Krakowka urged unity and support for families.
- Police identified the shooter as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, and Gigi Rejano called for guarding school entrances, noting shootings are rare in Canada.
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'It certainly changes your life': Father of 1999 Taber school shooting victim offers prayers, reflects on his path to healing
The mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Tuesday sent shockwaves across the country — including the town of Taber, which suffered its own school shooting in 1999.
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Grieving Canada town holds vigil for school shooting victims
As the sun set in the grief-stricken Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge on Wednesday, hundreds gathered in a main square, lighting candles for victims of one of the country's worst-ever mass shootings.
Winnipeg Free Press
Father of Alberta school shooting victim talks grieving and forgiveness
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
Father of Alberta school shooting victim talks grieving and forgiveness
The father of a student killed in a school shooting in southern Alberta almost 27 years ago says forgiveness was at the heart of how he tackled the tragedy. Retired reverend Dale Lang lost his 17-year-old son, Jason, after the teen was shot by a fellow student in a hallway at W.R. Myers High School in Taber, Alta., about 300 kilometres southeast of Calgary, in 1999. The 14-year-old shooter, who also wounded another student, was convicted of fi…
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