A few hours after Canada's worst school mass shooting in recent history, which left eight people dead and more than 25 injured in British Columbia, police identified the suspect as 18‑year‑old Jesse Van Rootselaar, known to police services due to a past with mental health issues, according to authorities.
The 18‑year‑old was found dead from an apparent self‑inflicted injury after the attack on the school, in which six people — including five students and one teacher — were killed, as well as two people in a home who were later identified as the attacker’s 39‑year‑old mother and 11‑year‑old stepbrother in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, police said.
