Unpublished Newswire

Reactions to mass shootings follow a grimly familiar script: stunned disbelief, public mourning, and a rush of conjecture and speculation. In Tumbler Ridge, a remote town of roughly 2,500 in northeastern British Columbia, that cycle began on February 10, 2026, after an attack in which police identified Jesse Van Rootselaar as the shooter. Authorities say the eighteen-year-old local resident killed her mother, Jennifer Jacobs, and her eleven-year-old half-brother at home before going to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where six people—students aged twelve and thirteen, as well as a thirty...