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.
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.
USA USA USA
And potentially a woman!
Is this the first case of a female school shooter?
Trans woman shooter, so conservatives will be triggered
January 29, 1979 in San Diego is the earliest time I recall
Trans, Republicans going bananas about this 😬
No. Wisconsin Abundant Life Christian School, in 2024. Not sure about before that.
