"But most Canadians had likely never even heard of this town, with its approximately 2,700 residents. Set in the foothills of the Hart Ranges, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, Tumbler Ridge is close enough to the famed mountain parks of Alberta and BC to share a bit of their epic scenery but far enough to go mostly unnoticed by the outside world."
"Everything is different now, and in the worst way. Eighteen-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar shot and killed her mother, Jennifer Jacobs (also known as Jennifer Strang), and her eleven-year-old half-brother, Emmett Jacobs, in their home at 112 Fellers Avenue. She then moved on to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where she killed five students and an education assistant, Shannda Aviugana-Durand. Five kids who went to school that day will never come home: Zoey Benoit, Ticaria Lampert, Abel Mwansa, Ezekiel Schofield, and Kylie Smith, all age twelve"
On February 10, eighteen-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother, Jennifer Jacobs (also known as Jennifer Strang), and her eleven-year-old half-brother, Emmett Jacobs, at their home. She then carried out a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, killing five students and an education assistant, Shannda Aviugana-Durand, and wounding two others. Five children—Zoey Benoit, Ticaria Lampert, Abel Mwansa, Ezekiel Schofield, and Kylie Smith—died; two students, Maya Gebala and Paige Hoekstra, were seriously wounded and hospitalized in Vancouver. Tumbler Ridge, a town of about 2,700 in the Hart Ranges, became the focus of national grief, and world leaders contacted Prime Minister Mark Carney with condolences.
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