What we know about the Canadian school shooter

"The killer, who police named as Jesse Van Rootselaar, committed suicide after Tuesday's shooting in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community in the Pacific province of British Columbia. Police also revised the death toll down to nine from the initially reported 10. Police had attended that (family) residence on multiple occasions over the past several years, dealing with concerns of mental health with respect to our suspect, said Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia."

"McDonald said Van Rootselaar, who was born male but began to identify as a female six years ago, had first killed her mother, 39, and 11-year-old step-brother at the family home. The killings at the home occurred first, he said. A young family member at the home went to a neighbour, who called police. She then went to the school, where she shot a 39-year-old woman teacher as well as three 12-year-old female students and two male students, one aged 12 and one aged 13."

"Police recovered a long gun and a modified handgun. McDonald said officers arrived at the school two minutes after the initial call. When they arrived, shots were fired in their direction. More than 25 people were wounded Tuesday in the attack in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge, police said. The town of 2,700 people in the Canadian Rockies is more than 1,000 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, near the provincial border with Alberta."

An attacker in Tumbler Ridge, named Jesse Van Rootselaar, committed suicide after a mass shooting that left nine dead, police revised the toll down from 10. Van Rootselaar first killed her 39-year-old mother and an 11-year-old step-brother at the family home. A young family member alerted a neighbour and then went to the school, where the attacker shot a 39-year-old woman teacher and five students — three 12-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy. Officers recovered a long gun and a modified handgun, and arrived at the school two minutes after the initial call, when shots were fired at them. More than 25 people were wounded. Tumbler Ridge is a remote town of about 2,700 people in northeastern British Columbia.

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