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Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman as suspect in mass school shooting
Reuters ^ | February 11, 20268:47 AM CST | David Ljunggren and Ryan Patrick Jones

Posted on 02/11/2026 9:05:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Summary

OTTAWA, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The suspect in a deadly school shooting in western Canada was an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues who killed her mother and stepbrother before attacking her former school, police said on Wednesday, but investigators did not offer a motive for one of the worst mass slaughters in Canadian history.

The killer, whom police identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, died by suicide after the shooting on Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community of 2,400 people in the Pacific province of British Columbia. Police revised the death toll down to nine, including Van Rootselaar, from the initially reported 10.

On more than one occasion, Van Rootselaar had been apprehended under the provincial Mental Health Act for an assessment, said Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia.

"Police had attended that (family) residence on multiple occasions over the past several years, dealing with concerns of mental health with respect to our suspect," McDonald said.

Unlike the United States, school shootings are almost unheard of in Canada, and federal politicians initially struggled to maintain their composure.

"We will get through this. We will learn from this," a visibly upset Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters. He postponed a trip to Europe and ordered flags on all government buildings be flown at half-mast for the next seven days.

Hours later, legislators in the House of Commons observed a moment of silence and listened as a somber Carney said the killings had left the country in shock and mourning.

"Tumbler Ridge represents the very best of Canada," Carney said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
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Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman as suspect in mass school shooting

No matter how much you hate the gaslight propaganda press, you don't hate them enough.


1 posted on 02/11/2026 9:05:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Take a walk on the wild side!


2 posted on 02/11/2026 9:06:59 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To be fair, that may very well be your typical Canadian biological woman these days


3 posted on 02/11/2026 9:07:27 PM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
No matter how much you hate the gaslight propaganda press, you don't hate them enough.

👍👍👍👍👍

4 posted on 02/11/2026 9:18:21 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF ISR pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
No matter how much you hate the gaslight propaganda press, you don't hate them enough.

Yep. The Pedophile Media strikes again.

5 posted on 02/11/2026 9:18:51 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Get these trannies out of the women’s rooms and back into the psyche wards where they belong.


6 posted on 02/11/2026 9:18:56 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (Tthe trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dude looks like Fred Flintstone in a dress.

CC


7 posted on 02/11/2026 9:20:37 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

She was a MAN, and still was up until his cowardly evil act.


8 posted on 02/11/2026 9:21:16 PM PST by cherry
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Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman MAN who was pregging to cut off hiss PENIS as suspect in mass school shooting

Fixed.

9 posted on 02/11/2026 9:22:17 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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10 posted on 02/11/2026 9:22:33 PM PST by CapandBall
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s a man!

XY, male.

Who’s denying science now?


11 posted on 02/11/2026 9:27:36 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s a dude, dude ... and a damn ugly one.

Ever heard the term “punchable face”?

That’s what they’re talking about ...


12 posted on 02/11/2026 9:28:07 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If I had to guess at the details, this guy had a woke, weak, post-modern mother who encouraged his sexual confusion - and he killed her first.


13 posted on 02/11/2026 9:29:46 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

“Plucked her eyebrows along the way,
Shaved her legs and then he was a she-
She says, “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said hey honey, take a walk on the wild side-
And the colored girls go
Doo, do-doo, do-doo, do-do-doo”...

Sorry-couldn’t resist the temptation...


14 posted on 02/11/2026 9:31:13 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Celtic Conservative
Dude looks like Fred Flintstone in a dress.

My first thought was the actor Jack Black, with bad makeup

15 posted on 02/11/2026 9:31:15 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Dooo doo do dooo do do do doo do do do do doo do doooooooo......


16 posted on 02/11/2026 9:31:47 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Message to Reuters: As long as you keep identifying biological men like Jesse van Rootselaar as “women,” you have no credibility. You are clowns, a joke - a bad joke - and propagandists, not tellers of the truth. Eat s***!!!


17 posted on 02/11/2026 9:43:56 PM PST by Steve_Seattle1
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To: ro_dreaming
"Who’s denying science now?"

1,000 amens.
18 posted on 02/11/2026 9:45:26 PM PST by Steve_Seattle1
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To: dfwgator

Haha! Glad I wasn’t the only one tempted...


19 posted on 02/11/2026 9:49:05 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well at least they don’t offend the true victim of the crime, the tranny, by misgendering her and her penis. Never mind 10 people are killed, and dozens wounded, someone think of the poor tranny.


20 posted on 02/11/2026 9:51:14 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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