Nine people were murdered and 25 injured in a school shooting in western Canada. “At least two other people were hospitalized with serious or life-threatening wounds.”
A man identified as the suspect’s uncle, Russell G. Strang, confirmed to outlets like the New York Post and Juno News that the shooter was his 18-year-old nephew, Jesse Van Rootselaar, and described the individual as transgender. Van Rootselaar, a former student who dropped out approximately four years ago, committed suicide well before the police were able to arrive. Police took a long time to get things under control, and it took more than two hours before students and teachers barricaded who themselves in classrooms could be escorted out
High school students barricaded classroom doors with tables and chairs for at least two hours while a shooter — described as a “gunperson” in a “dress” — left nine dead and 25 injured during Canada’s deadliest school shooting in nearly 40 years.
Darian Quist, a 12th-grader, was in his mechanics class Tuesday afternoon when Tumbler Ridge Secondary School students in remote northeastern British Columbia were plunged into lockdown.
“For a while, I didn’t think anything was going on,” he told CBC. “I thought it was just like maybe a ‘Secure and hold’ but once everything starts circulating, we kind of realized something was wrong.” . . .
It isn’t clear what type of gun was used by Jesse Van Rootselaar, though he is said to have used both a rifle and a handgun, but gun in this picture of him that was published in the New York Post appears to be a bolt-action rifle with a mounted scope
The mother of the transgender murderer in Canada called out trans hate in old social media post.
Major school-related incidents in Canadian history:
- Robert Poulin (1975): The perpetrator of the St. Pius X High School shooting in Ottawa, two murdered, five injured.
- Marc Lépine (1989): The perpetrator of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, where he killed 14 women before killing himself.
- Valery Fabrikant (1992): An engineering professor who killed four colleagues at Concordia University in Montreal.
- Kimveer Gill (2006): Opened fire at Dawson College in Montreal, killing one student and injuring 20 others.
- Robert Charron (2013): The shooter in a double-killing at a daycare center in Gatineau, Quebec.
- Randan Dakota Fontaine (2016): Responsible for the La Loche shooting in Saskatchewan, killing four people, including two staff members at a high school.
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