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Online presence of Tumbler Ridge suspect shows history of engaging with violence
"On 10 February, Jesse Van Rootselaar (also known as Jesse Strang) killed eight people in the remote British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge. The first two victims were the killer’s mother and half-brother, whom Van Rootselaar shot at home. Van Rootselaar then went to a local secondary school and murdered six more people—five of whom were twelve- or thirteen-year-old students—before committing suicide. Twenty-seven others were injured. It was the deadliest Canadian school shooting in almost four decades, and the highest-casualty mass-shooting event in the nation’s history.
Nothing I write here can properly convey the anguish that surviving family members must now endure. The population of Tumbler Ridge is only about 2,400. Most residents likely know one or more people connected to the tragedy in some way, and so they will share in the trauma as well. Like Columbine and Sandy Hook, the words “Tumbler Ridge” will now become indelibly associated with senseless violence and unfathomable sorrow.
When news of the tragedy was first reported to Canadians on the afternoon of 10 February, it appeared to include a striking anomaly: The killer, we were told, was a “woman.” There are scattered examples of female killers in the annals of Canadian crime. But this would be the first time in the recorded history of Canada and its colonial antecedents—going back more than 400 years, to the early seventeenth century—that a woman had gone on this kind of murderous rampage."
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The Tumbler Ridge Killer Was a Man, Not a Woman
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