Prime minister to visit Tumbler Ridge in the near future, says statement
The statement says details, including the timing of the visit to Tumbler Ridge, are being worked out with community officials “based on their immediate needs.”
CHAD HIPOLITO)
TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. — A statement says details of a visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney to Tumbler Ridge in the wake of a deadly school shooting are being worked out with community officials “based on their immediate needs.”
Nine people, mostly children, were killed in the mass shooting on Tuesday, February 10th, including Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old shooter who police say took her own life.
Among the dead are five students of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, a teacher and the shooter’s mother and stepbrother, who both died in the home they shared with Van Rootselaar in Tumbler Ridge.
B.C. Premier David Eby and federal public safety minister Gary Anandasangaree are currently in the small northern B.C. town of less than 3,000 people.
Dozens were injured in the shooting and Premier Eby said one of them, a 12-year-old girl named Maya Gebala, is “clinging to life in hospital.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published February 12th, 2026.
— With files from Brenna Owen in Tumbler Ridge
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