Posted on 02/11/2026 4:21:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
An 18-year-old has been named as the suspect in a shooting that killed eight people and injured dozens more in British Columbia, Canada.
Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot injury. The motive for the attack is not yet known.
Six people were killed and at least 25 others were injured at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Two others - the suspect's mother, 39, and step-brother, 11 - were found dead at a nearby home.
Authorities said Van Rootselaar was born a biological male but identified as a woman.
"I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to transition to female," Dwayne McDonald, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) deputy commissioner, said.
The shooting at the nearby home occurred first, then the suspect went to the school, McDonald said.
The victims at the school were a 39-year-old female educator, three female students, all aged 12, and two male students, one aged 12 and the other 13.
Authorities do not believe there are other suspects involved in the shootings.
Police said they had attended the suspect's family home on multiple occasions over the past several years, with some calls related to mental health concerns.
Van Rootselaar previously had a valid gun licence that had since lapsed, McDonald said.
Police said Van Rootselaar had dropped out of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School four years ago.
Around 13:30 local time (20:30 GMT) on Tuesday, police received a report of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Officers arrived on the scene within two minutes of the call, heard active gunfire and entered the school, McDonald said.
Within minutes they located the shooter, who was deceased from what police say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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I am beginning to detect a pattern.
A Seventh Grade drop-out male-Trans, with a Dutch last name.
No pics yet, though.
This insanity has to stop. The ‘physicians’ responsible for doing this to confused young people need to be held responsible.
“”””I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to transition to female,” Dwayne McDonald, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) deputy commissioner, said.””””””
“I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to PRETEND TO BE A CHICK BUT STILL HAS A D!CK,” Dwayne McDonald, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) deputy commissioner, said.
“it remains unclear the exact roles the firearms played in the shooting.”
This has to be one of the dumbest sentences ever written in history. It’s pretty clear the guns were used to kill people.
Recall that John Peterson was censured for opposing the insanity of trans ideology. Canada’s famed strict gun control has been exposed as a sham. This shooting explodes all of Canada’s conceited progressive delusions.
None dare say "retarded."
But a new concept has entered our lives: gun-person.
Thanks.
That entire community, including the injured and their families and all who know those injured, is going to carry some of this tragedy with them for a long while, if not for the rest of their lives. I see nothing but innocent victims here. It was not directly the school’s fault if this boy had mental problems and felt ostracized.
They called him a “Gun-person”..
The real pattern is that people do not want to recognize that mental illness is a real entity and those afflicted cannot live in any society. Until mental illness is cured permanently those people must be put in a place where they cannot harm themselves or others.
Mentally ill people pick up any idea and then act out that idea in uncontrollable ways.
He really put on weight from just a few years ago!
Maybe it was all that unneeded estrogen he ‘self prescribed’.
If late singer Meatloaf packed on make up and rouge, he may look like this. First pic has a faint moustache.
A transsexual incel. Would could possibly go wrong?
What does the Dad have to say?
2020 - Rootselaar “begins transitioning.”
2022 - Rootselaat drops out of school
Now that is one ugly, fake woman.
“This insanity has to stop. The ‘physicians’ responsible for doing this to confused young people need to be held responsible.”
As do their PARENTS!
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