Police Identify BC School Shooter

RCMP revise death toll to 9

Students walk out of the school building with their hands up after an assailant opened fire at a high school in the town of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., on Feb. 10, 2026. Western Standard/ Jordon Kosik/Handout via Reuters

Police have identified the suspect in the killing of multiple people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in B.C. as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar of Tumbler Ridge.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said at a Feb. 11 press conference that nine people, including the shooter, were killed in the Feb. 10 incident and 27 others were injured. McDonald said the police force was wrong in its earlier assessment that 10 people had died.