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.
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No matter how much you hate the gaslight propaganda press, you don't hate them enough.
Take a walk on the wild side!
To be fair, that may very well be your typical Canadian biological woman these days
👍👍👍👍👍
Yep. The Pedophile Media strikes again.
Get these trannies out of the women’s rooms and back into the psyche wards where they belong.
Dude looks like Fred Flintstone in a dress.
CC
She was a MAN, and still was up until his cowardly evil act.
That’s a man!
XY, male.
Who’s denying science now?
That’s a dude, dude ... and a damn ugly one.
Ever heard the term “punchable face”?
That’s what they’re talking about ...
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.
“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...
My first thought was the actor Jack Black, with bad makeup
Dooo doo do dooo do do do doo do do do do doo do doooooooo......
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***!!!
Haha! Glad I wasn’t the only one tempted...
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.
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