Overview
- Prime Minister Mark Carney and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre attended a candlelight vigil in Tumbler Ridge where hundreds honored the victims.
- RCMP say the shooter did not target specific individuals and seized two guns from the home and two from the school as the probe continues.
- Authorities confirm six deaths at the school — five children and assistant teacher Shannda Aviugana-Durand — following the earlier killings of the suspect’s mother and 11-year-old stepbrother.
- The alleged shooter, identified in reporting as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, died by suicide after opening fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
- Two people — 12-year-old Maya Gebala and 19-year-old Paige Hoekstra — remain hospitalized with gunshot wounds, according to news reports.