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. Original Story: At least 10 people are dead following a mass shooting at a school and inside of a home in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, police have confirmed. Investigators said they found six people dead and dozens of others injured when they reported to the high school in Tumbler Ridge the afternoon of Tuesday, February 10, according to CNN. Meanwhile, officials said that a seventh person died while they were being taken to the hospital for treatment. In addition to the shooting at the school, the alleged gunman is believed to have fatally shot two more people, whose bodies were discovered at a nearby home. The alleged shooter was found dead at the school from a self-inflicted injury. While police confirmed that they know the identity of the suspect, they have not shared any further details - and did not reveal if the suspect was a child. Brown University Shares Plans to Reevaluates Safety Policies After Shooting Police said that two of the victims were airlifted from the school to a hospital after they sustained serious or life-threatening injuries in the massacre. Additionally, approximately 25 other people went to a local medical center for treatment. At the time of the shooting, an emergency alert was sent out to residents' phones. Authorities described the suspect as a brown-haired woman wearing a dress, according to CBC News. Police have not revealed the identities of the victims or shared how many of those who were killed were children. Elif Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images "We are not in a place now to be able to understand why or what may have motivated this tragedy," Superintendent Ken Floyd, the North District commander of the British Columbia Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said on February 10. "I think we will struggle to determine the 'why,' but we will try our best to determine what transpired." On Wednesday, February 11, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney discussed the tragedy - one of the deadliest mass shootings in the nation's history - during a press conference. "We will get through this. We will learn from this," Carney, 60, emotionally told reporters, according to Reuters. "But right now, it's a time to come together, as Canadians always do in these situations, these terrible situations, to support each other, to mourn together and to grow together." Carney added that it was a "very difficult day" for Tumbler Ridge, as well as the nation. "Parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love," he said. "The nation mourns with you. Canada stands by you." Meanwhile, several world leaders also weighed in on the shooting. King Charles said he was "profoundly shocked and saddened" by the incident. Brown University Shares Plans to Reevaluates Safety Policies After Shooting "We can only begin to imagine the appalling shadow that has now descended across Tumbler Ridge," Charles, 77, added in his statement. Tumbler Ridge is a remote mountain town in northeast British Columbia that has a population of 2,400 people. The tight-knit community is now left in shock after experiencing such an unimaginable tragedy. "I will know every victim. I've been here 19 years, and we're a small community," the town's mayor, Darryl Krakowka, told CBC. "I don't call them residents. I call them family." The investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.