Overview
- Hundreds gathered in Tumbler Ridge as Prime Minister Mark Carney and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre stood together at a candlelight vigil where victims were named.
- Police say 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at home before fatally shooting five students and an assistant teacher at the secondary school, then taking her own life.
- RCMP report the shooter appeared to be “hunting” and engaging anyone, officers faced gunfire on entry, and four firearms were seized from the home and school.
- Two people wounded in the attack, 12-year-old Maya Gebala and 19-year-old Paige Hoekstra, remain hospitalized in Vancouver.
- British Columbia Premier David Eby said students will not be required to return to the school and promised safe alternatives for their education.