“Those RCMP officers from the local Tumbler Ridge RCMP detachment are heroes, quite frankly,” McCall said Thursday. Mounties later identified the shooter as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, a transgender female who lived in Tumbler Ridge. Clockwise from top left: Abel Mwansa, Zoey Renee Anne Benoit, Ticaria Lampert and Kylie May Smith were killed in the shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. “In a place like Tumbler Ridge, they could be 45 minutes away on a highway crash. We’re all better off for their service.”This grab from video shows students exiting the Tumbler Ridge school after deadly shootings in British Columbia, Tuesday Feb. 10, 2026.

Source: National Post February 12, 2026 22:46 UTC