Police identify suspect in Tumbler Ridge mass shooting

Canadian authorities identified the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar. Dwayne McDonald, a deputy commissioner at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, said she killed her mother and stepbrother before opening fire at the local secondary school, fatally wounding several others and then killing herself.

McDonald said most of the victims were 12- or 13-year-old students found in the school library. Officials said 10 bodies were recovered: six victims and the suspected shooter at the school, one person who died while being transported to a hospital, and two others at a private residence.

At least 25 people were wounded, and two airlifted victims were described as "critical but stable." Police said Van Rootselaar was biologically born male and began transitioning to female about six years ago; they will continue to identify her as female.

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