UPDATE: 2/11/2026 at 5:15 p.m.: One day after the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge took place, police reportedly identified the suspect. On Wednesday, February 11, police identified the suspected shooter as 18-year-old Jesse van Rootselaar, according to The New York Times, BBC and CBC. It's believed that Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother at their home before she traveled to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where she allegedly killed six others. Authorities said that the shooter then died by suicide at the school. A motive for the shooting has not publicly been shared.