"Police identified the suspect in the deadly Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada as an 18-year-old local woman who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health. She is suspected of shooting dead six people at the local high school on Tuesday after killing her mother and stepbrother at home. Police revise death toll down The suspect killed eight people, police clarified, and not nine as had been previously reported."
"Five of those killed at the school were students aged 12 and 13, while the sixth was a teacher, he said. "There is no information at this point that anyone was specifically targeted," McDonald said, adding that the suspect had dropped out of the school some four years ago."
An 18-year-old local transgender woman is the identified suspect in a mass shooting that left eight people dead in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. The suspect allegedly killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at the family home before attacking the local high school, where six people died, including five students aged 12 and 13 and one teacher. A long gun and a modified handgun were found at the school. Initial reports had mistakenly counted a ninth death due to confusion over an airlifted victim; the confirmed death toll is eight. The suspect had prior police mental-health contacts and prior weapons seizures; no suicide note or motive has been determined.
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