Overview
- Prime Minister Mark Carney, the governor general and federal party leaders attended a vigil in the town and laid flowers near the secondary school.
- RCMP identified the suspect as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who killed her mother and stepbrother at home, then fatally shot five students and an education assistant at the school before dying of an apparent self-inflicted injury.
- Investigators say there is no confirmed motive and that the shooter was "hunting" rather than targeting specific individuals.
- Police have seized four firearms in total, including a long gun and a modified handgun recovered at the school, and are working to verify the source and legality of the primary weapon used there.
- Forensic work and interviews are ongoing, autopsies are expected by the end of the weekend, and two critically injured children remain hospitalized.