The suspect in a school shooting in Canada has been identified as an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health.

The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the attack that killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia.

Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound following the assault on a school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school. She had a history of mental health contacts with police, he said.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    98·
    2 days ago

    Did Canada have its first school shooting of the year before the US? It’s the first one I’m hearing about this year anywhere in the world!

        • funkajunk 🇨🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          It doesn’t really matter where a shooting takes place IMO, I was mostly commenting on gun violence not getting better in the US.

          • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            It does matter where a shooting takes place though. Random violence is scary and makes people feel less safe. Gang disputes (how a lot of mass shootings occur) are generally accepted as a consequence of gang members being unable to seek redress in the courts. Non involved parties do get killed in gang shootings of course but the violence tends to be localized and amongst people who know each other. That is less scary for the average person who does not live in a known gang area.

              • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                1 day ago

                You said it doesn’t matter where a shooting takes place. I never said any shooting was okay. I said that it does matter where they take place as shootings in different places are perceived differently and have different societal impacts.

                • funkajunk 🇨🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 day ago

                  I was talking about overall gun violence in the US, but you’re talking about how it’s “perceived differently”, presumably if you’re in a suburb or something. It’s kind of a non sequitur.

                  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    1 day ago

                    Random acts of violence like the one in the article are different than disagreements that turn violent. They have different causes and different solutions. They are perceived differently because they are different things. I feel like mentioning the suburbs is a bit of a non sequitur.