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 Juno News that the shooter was his 18-year-old nephew, Jesse Strang, and described the individual as transgender.
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.” . . .
Major school-related incidents in Canadian history:
- Robert Poulin (1975): The perpetrator of the St. Pius X High School shooting in Ottawa.
- 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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