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.
It was a woman? That doesn’t happen often
Out of the loop? trans woman. So verbiage may vary.
I didn’t realize she was trans when I wrote this comment. I hope people don’t think I’m questioning her gender identity. I’m just saying mass shootings aren’t often done by women.
I guess the question is whether she was pre or post hormone therapy. Testosterone is a hell of a drug.
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.
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.
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.
It doesn’t really matter where a shooting takes place IMO, I was mostly commenting on gun violence not getting better in the US.
It does matter where a shooting takes place though. Random violence is scary and makes people feel less safe. Gang disputes (how a lot of mass shootings occur) are generally accepted as a consequence of gang members being unable to seek redress in the courts. Non involved parties do get killed in gang shootings of course but the violence tends to be localized and amongst people who know each other. That is less scary for the average person who does not live in a known gang area.
Hunh? Because it’s “less scary” for some people, it’s okay?
I’m not sure I’m getting your point.
You said it doesn’t matter where a shooting takes place. I never said any shooting was okay. I said that it does matter where they take place as shootings in different places are perceived differently and have different societal impacts.
I was talking about overall gun violence in the US, but you’re talking about how it’s “perceived differently”, presumably if you’re in a suburb or something. It’s kind of a non sequitur.
You’re all a bit too insane and unstable to have guns safely.
Canada has very little gun violence overall and the gun violence we do have is usually done with guns smuggled in from the US…
It’s telling that when a mass shooting does happen here, it makes world news
Is this the first case of a female school shooter?
second one in the past year.
Trans woman shooter, so conservatives will be triggered
It started immediately :(:
After Tumbler Ridge shooting, … https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tumbler-ridge-shooting-trans-community-false-claims-9.7085078
You know that Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Mondays” it’s based off a female school shooter from the 70’s but yes female school shooters are rare. Trans femme shooters are even rarer with the majority trans shooters being trans men.
Spree killing is almost entirely a male coded pastime. Serial killers have slightly higher rates of female participation. This event is quite a statistical anomaly. Canada has only had 10 school related shootings that counted as spree killings in its entire history and this one was commited by a demographic that is such a narrow slice of the pie chart of total spree killers worldwide that it is barely a hairswidth slice. Winning the lottery thrice has better odds.
No. Wisconsin Abundant Life Christian School, in 2024. Not sure about before that.
