The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the attack that killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia.
Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound following the assault on a school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school. She had a history of mental health contacts with police, he said.
Police removed the guns family owned but the legal owner petitioned to get them back. Should be held responsible (if still alive) in my opinion.
B-but we still need more surveillance or we cant stop terrorism…
Nevermind the fact they always seem to already know of the suspects before they commit their acts.
You’re all a bit too insane and unstable to have guns safely.
Is this the first case of a female school shooter?
Trans woman shooter, so conservatives will be triggered
Despite the fact that trans people are statistically under-represented among mass shooters.
But the right never lets facts get in the way of their feelings.
January 29, 1979 in San Diego is the earliest time I recall
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Trans, Republicans going bananas about this 😬
No. Wisconsin Abundant Life Christian School, in 2024. Not sure about before that.
Did Canada have its first school shooting of the year before the US? It’s the first one I’m hearing about this year anywhere in the world!
There’s been 45 mass shootings in the USA so far in 2026, so nothing seems to have changed.
They asked about school shootings, not mass shooting.
USA USA USA
And potentially a woman!
