Suspect in Canada shooting is identified as an 18-year-old with history of police visits to her home
(apnews.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 03:21
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 03:21
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The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the attack that killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia.
Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound following the assault on a school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school. She had a history of mental health contacts with police, he said.
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Is this the first case of a female school shooter?
No. Wisconsin Abundant Life Christian School, in 2024. Not sure about before that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Like_Mondays
January 29, 1979 in San Diego is the earliest time I recall
Trans woman shooter, so conservatives will be triggered
Despite the fact that trans people are statistically under-represented among mass shooters.
But the right never lets facts get in the way of their feelings.
It started immediately :(:
After Tumbler Ridge shooting, … https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tumbler-ridge-shooting-trans-community-false-claims-9.7085078
Trans, Republicans going bananas about this 😬
Did Canada have its first school shooting of the year before the US? It’s the first one I’m hearing about this year anywhere in the world!
And potentially a woman!
There’s been 45 mass shootings in the USA so far in 2026, so nothing seems to have changed.
massshootingtracker.site/data/?year=2026
USA USA USA
They asked about school shootings, not mass shooting.
It doesn’t really matter where a shooting takes place IMO, I was mostly commenting on gun violence not getting better in the US.
It does matter where a shooting takes place though. Random violence is scary and makes people feel less safe. Gang disputes (how a lot of mass shootings occur) are generally accepted as a consequence of gang members being unable to seek redress in the courts. Non involved parties do get killed in gang shootings of course but the violence tends to be localized and amongst people who know each other. That is less scary for the average person who does not live in a known gang area.
Hunh? Because it’s “less scary” for some people, it’s okay?
I’m not sure I’m getting your point.
You said it doesn’t matter where a shooting takes place. I never said any shooting was okay. I said that it does matter where they take place as shootings in different places are perceived differently and have different societal impacts.
Nevermind the fact they always seem to already know of the suspects before they commit their acts.
Yeah. We have these rules around proof and actionable Intel before the cops can just go grab someone. They’re not ICE. But it doesn’t mean the cops don’t know about a person.
You’re all a bit too insane and unstable to have guns safely.
Canada has very little gun violence overall and the gun violence we do have is usually done with guns smuggled in from the US…
It’s telling that when a mass shooting does happen here, it makes world news
Seriously, I don’t mean to sound holier than thou, but the US has a mass shooting like every other day. There’s just simply no contest.
You mean one or more per day, not every other day.
According to a person in another thread, they’ve had 45 so far in 2026, so I think it’s actually like one a day. That’s crazy.
Yeah that site has a data download, so we could also check day of week clustering as well.
Police removed the guns family owned but the legal owner petitioned to get them back. Should be held responsible (if still alive) in my opinion.
It was a woman? That doesn’t happen often
you will set off a bunch of rednecks calling her a woman.
Out of the loop? trans woman. So verbiage may vary.
I didn’t realize she was trans when I wrote this comment. I hope people don’t think I’m questioning her gender identity. I’m just saying mass shootings aren’t often done by women.
I guess the question is whether she was pre or post hormone therapy. Testosterone is a hell of a drug.