UPDATE: 11/2/2026 at 5:15 p.m.: A day after the fatal shooting at Tumbler Ridge, police reportedly identified the suspect.
On Wednesday, February 11, police identified the alleged shooter as an 18-year-old. Jesse van Rootselaarseconds The New York Times, BBC i CBC.
Rootselaar is believed to have killed his mother and half-brother at their home before traveling to Tumbler Ridge High School, where he allegedly killed six other people. Authorities said the shooter later killed himself at the school.
A motive for the shooting has not been publicly shared.
Original story:
At least 10 people are dead after a mass shooting at a school and inside a home in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, police have confirmed.
Investigators said they found six people dead and dozens more injured when they arrived at Tumbler Ridge High School on the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 10, he reported. CNN. Meanwhile, authorities said a seventh person died while being taken to hospital for treatment.
In addition to the school shooting, the suspected gunman is believed to have killed two other people, whose bodies were discovered in a nearby home.
The suspected shooter was found dead at the school from a self-inflicted injury. While police confirmed they know the identity of the suspect, they have not shared further details and did not reveal whether the suspect was a child.
A manhunt has been launched in Providence, Rhode Island, for the person who opened fire on the campus of the Ivy League institution Brown University on Saturday, December 13, killing two students and injuring nine others. While a Wisconsin student was initially detained by police as a “person of interest” in the shooting, that person was released and (…)
Police said two of the victims were airlifted from the school to a hospital after suffering serious or life-threatening injuries in the massacre. In addition, approximately 25 other people went to a local medical center for treatment.
At the time of the shooting, an emergency alert was sent to neighbors’ phones. Authorities described the suspect as a brown-haired woman wearing a dress CBC News.
Police have not released the identities of the victims or shared how many of those killed were children.
“We are not in a place right now to be able to understand why or what may have motivated this tragedy,” said the superintendent. Ken FloydBritish Columbia’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police Northern District Commander said on Feb. 10.
“I think we’re going to struggle to determine the ‘why,’ but we’re going to do our best to determine what happened.”
On Wednesday, February 11, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney discussed the tragedy, one of the deadliest mass shootings in the nation’s history, during a news conference.
“We’ll get through it. We’ll learn from it,” an emotional Carney, 60, told reporters, he said. Reuters. “But right now, it’s time to come together, as Canadians always do in these situations, these terrible situations, to support each other, to mourn together and to grow together.”
Carney added that it was a “very difficult day” for Tumbler Ridge, as well as the nation.
“The parents and grandparents and sisters and brothers of Tumbler Ridge are going to wake up without someone they love,” he said. “The nation mourns with you. Canada stands with you.”
Meanwhile, several world leaders also weighed in on the shooting. King Charles said he was “deeply shocked and saddened” by the incident.
A manhunt has been launched in Providence, Rhode Island, for the person who opened fire on the campus of the Ivy League institution Brown University on Saturday, December 13, killing two students and injuring nine others. While a Wisconsin student was initially detained by police as a “person of interest” in the shooting, that person was released and (…)
“We can only begin to imagine the terrible shadow that has now descended over Tumbler Ridge,” Charles, 77, added in his statement.
Tumbler Ridge is a remote mountain town in northeastern British Columbia that has a population of 2,400. The close-knit community is now left in shock after experiencing such an unimaginable tragedy.
“I will know all the victims. I’ve been here 19 years and we’re a small community,” the city’s mayor, Darryl Krakowka, told the CBC. “I don’t call them residents, I call them family.”
The investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.