The mass shooting in Canada

Tearful Prime Minister: “Canada stands by you”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has made a tearful statement to the press after today’s mass shooting, writes the New York Times.

– This morning, parents, grandparents, sisters and brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love. The nation mourns with you. Canada stands by you.

A total of ten bodies have been found – six shot to death and the suspected shooter at a school, two people in a home, and one person who died on the way to the hospital.

Police believe they have identified the shooter, whom they initially described as a “brown-haired woman in a dress”. However, they do not want to release any information about the suspect, who took her own life after the attack, and say they have no insight into the motive yet.

Student Darian on the attack: “Locked in for two hours”

At least ten people are dead after a mass shooting in the Canadian community of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia. Many of them were shot dead inside a school and the incident is described as one of the country’s worst school shootings ever.

CBC News has interviewed one of the students who was at the school during the shooting. Darian Quist, who is in his senior year of high school, says that he and his classmates were locked in the classroom for several hours.

“We barricaded the doors with tables for over two hours,” he says, adding that the police later escorted them out of the school.

Tumbler Ridge secondary school has just over 170 students aged 12–18. Darian Quist says he is having a hard time coming to terms with what has happened and that much is still unclear.

– Reality is starting to sink in… I think I knew someone, but everything is still very fresh, he says.

The perpetrator was described as a “woman in a dress”

Canadian authorities have not released details about the suspected perpetrator who is said to have shot dead at least nine people in British Columbia. But the suspect was described as a “brown-haired woman wearing a dress,” according to an emergency alert sent out to residents’ phones, according to CBC News.

At a press conference, police chief Ken Floyd says that the motive for the shooting is unclear.

– I think we will have a hard time determining “why,” but we will do our best to find out what happened, he says but is tight-lipped about the suspected perpetrator.

At least seven people were shot dead inside the school and two others are said to have been found dead at another location in connection with the attack. The shooter was also reportedly found dead inside the school, and police say the person may have taken his own life.

18-year-old was behind the mass shooting in Canada – killed mother and stepbrother

Police have identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the mass shooter in Canada, several media outlets report.

Van Rootselaar, a trans woman who lived in Tumbler Ridge where the attack was carried out, took her own life after the shooting.

The two dead people found in a home were the shooter's mother and stepbrother, according to police.

A total of nine people were killed in the attack, including the shooter. In addition to the relatives, six people were killed in a school. A seriously injured woman was previously reported to have died, but turned out to have survived.

Police say they currently have no idea about the motive. The shooter is believed to have acted alone.