9 dead, 25 injured in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. school shooting

[OnlinePoker]

Source: Global News

At least nine people were killed in a school shooting Tuesday afternoon in British Columbia’s Peace region, in which the suspected shooter also ended up dead.

RCMP said there were “multiple victims” from a shooting at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where students attend Grades 7 through 12.

RCMP in Tumbler Ridge issued an emergency alert on Tuesday afternoon for an active shooter following reports of a shooting at a school.

When officers entered the school on Tuesday afternoon, they found six victims dead, RCMP confirmed. Two more victims were found at another location, while another victim died on the way to hospital.
An individual believed to be the shooter was also found dead with what appears to be a self‑inflicted injury.

Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/11662006/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting/

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This is going to be devastating to this small community.

Edited with update.

[Deuxcents]

1. This is devastating to any community, anywhere. They believe the suspect was a female?

The article says the suspect was in a dress with brown hair..

[applegrove]

2. Vibes to the victims and their loved ones.... to the whole town.

[True Dough]

3. 34 people! How awful!

It will be interesting to see what sort of firearm was used to perpetrate this horrific crime.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

4. In CANADA, of all places?!

[Journeyman]

5. Looking at a list in Wikipedia, some 79 mass shootings in Canada since 2001 . . .

two with casualty counts as high as 26 (23 dead in one instance).

For this tragedy, Wikipedia shows a casualty count of 37, with 10 dead so far.

Could be the Canucks are too close to the US kooks.

[Deuxcents]

7. Yes..too easy access to guns

[Old Crank]

11. Canada has to deal with gun running from the US

Trump and his ilk are letting gun runners illegally send guns to Canada and Mexico.

[ClaudetteCC]

17. Is it known that the gun came from the US?

[Old Crank]

20. No.

But Canadian police, and Mexican police, are having to deal with gun running from the US.

I'm not saying the gun used is from an illegal gun purchase.

[maxsolomon]

19. Absurd

Canadians love guns almost as much as crazy Gunner Americans. They actually hunt.

[regnaD kciN]

6. There's a high rate of gun ownership in Canada...

…there just aren’t as many nutjobs who decide the solution to their problems is to blow away everyone they dislike. But there only needs to be one.

[Bev54]

13. Yes we have gun ownership but a lot of different guns are banned

[Brother Buzz]

8. Odd twist, the dead suspect may have been a woman

Police described the suspect as a woman in a dress with brown hair.

No age or identity yet.

[EllieBC]

9. It's a tiny town. Just heartbreaking.

2400 people and that school only has 175 kids between grades 7-12.

That’s such a huge loss for that town.

[applegrove]

10. RCMP detachment of 5 people got there to the school

in 2 minutes.

[Bev54]

12. It is difficult to hear about this in Canada and then doubly hard to know

the shooter was a female

[Delphinus]

15. Yes ...

what happened that made her snap?

[Bev54]

18. Don't know, we don't even know who she is or what relationship she had

to the school or to the other two people in a house that were shot. In Canada, privacy is strict and we will only find out later when police are ready to release some details.

[Lucky Luciano]

21. The right is currently having a field day with this.

Apparently, it was a trans female named Jesse strang.

They will use this to up the pressure on trans elimination.

[Bev54]

22. Don't know if that is true at this time, could be??

I will wait for the officials to confirm.

[ClaudetteCC]

23. Jesse Van Rootselaar

I saw that name on some unfamiliar websites but was waiting for a source I knew better. The name is different.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr5lnzqdr5pt

[Clouds Passing]

16. The victims

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