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OnlinePoker

(6,117 posts)
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 09:20 PM Feb 10

9 dead, 25 injured in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. school shooting [View all]

Source: Global News

At least nine people were killed in a school shooting Tuesday afternoon in British Columbia’s Peace region, in which the suspected shooter also ended up dead.

RCMP said there were “multiple victims” from a shooting at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where students attend Grades 7 through 12.

RCMP in Tumbler Ridge issued an emergency alert on Tuesday afternoon for an active shooter following reports of a shooting at a school.

When officers entered the school on Tuesday afternoon, they found six victims dead, RCMP confirmed. Two more victims were found at another location, while another victim died on the way to hospital.
An individual believed to be the shooter was also found dead with what appears to be a self‑inflicted injury.

Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/11662006/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting/



This is going to be devastating to this small community.

Edited with update.
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This is devastating to any community, anywhere. They believe the suspect was a female? Deuxcents Feb 10 #1
Vibes to the victims and their loved ones.... to the whole town. applegrove Feb 10 #2
34 people! How awful! True Dough Feb 10 #3
In CANADA, of all places?! buzzycrumbhunger Feb 10 #4
Looking at a list in Wikipedia, some 79 mass shootings in Canada since 2001 . . . Journeyman Feb 10 #5
Yes..too easy access to guns Deuxcents Feb 10 #7
Canada has to deal with gun running from the US Old Crank Feb 10 #11
Is it known that the gun came from the US? ClaudetteCC Feb 11 #17
No. Old Crank Feb 11 #20
Absurd maxsolomon Feb 11 #19
There's a high rate of gun ownership in Canada... regnaD kciN Feb 10 #6
Yes we have gun ownership but a lot of different guns are banned Bev54 Feb 11 #13
Odd twist, the dead suspect may have been a woman Brother Buzz Feb 10 #8
It's a tiny town. Just heartbreaking. EllieBC Feb 10 #9
RCMP detachment of 5 people got there to the school applegrove Feb 10 #10
It is difficult to hear about this in Canada and then doubly hard to know Bev54 Feb 11 #12
Post removed Post removed Feb 11 #14
Yes ... Delphinus Feb 11 #15
Don't know, we don't even know who she is or what relationship she had Bev54 Feb 11 #18
The right is currently having a field day with this. Lucky Luciano Feb 11 #21
Don't know if that is true at this time, could be?? Bev54 Feb 11 #22
Jesse Van Rootselaar ClaudetteCC Feb 11 #23
The victims Clouds Passing Feb 11 #16
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