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Police tape down in Tumbler Ridge as shooting victim is honoured 14,000 km away
RCMP removed police tape from the school after a shooting that killed six; communities in Tumbler Ridge and Solwezi, Zambia, honor the victims.
- On Saturday RCMP removed yellow police tape around Tumbler Ridge Secondary, ending a containment that began Tuesday, The Canadian Press reported Feb. 15, 2026.
- Authorities say the shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed her mother, half brother, five students, and an educator before shooting herself at Tumbler Ridge Secondary school.
- In Solwezi, friends and churchgoers celebrated Abel Mwansa Jr., 1, with candles at City of Grace Chapel, honoring him as `a little angel` some 14,000 kilometres away.
- Churches in Tumbler Ridge are preparing for their first Sunday services since the shootings, while roads leading up to the school remain barricaded and guarded by private security.
- Autopsies are expected to be finished this weekend, and Mounties say forensic work at the family home will wrap while work continues at the school.
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Police tape down in Tumbler Ridge as Zambia remembers young victim
UPDATE 3:25 p.m. On a cold grey morning, residents of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., made their way to their churches' first Sunday services since the recent shootings in the tiny community in which nine people died. An invisible thread connected the worshippers with another community some 14,000 kilometres a...
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