Canada school shooting latest: 12-year-old victim clinging to life as mother says family ‘needs a miracle’

Police identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the suspected shooter

A 12-year-old girl is clinging onto her life after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history in the small British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge.

“We were warned that the damage to her brain was too much for her to endure, and she wouldn't make the night,” her mother wrote in a post on Facebook. “Our baby needs a miracle.”


The girl was reportedly trying to lock the door when she was shot by 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who police say killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, after killing her 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at a nearby home.

Six people were killed at the high school: a 39-year-old female educator, three12-year-old female students, a 12-year-old male student and a 13-year-old male student.

Students and staff spent hours barricaded inside classrooms and other corners of the school after the principal directed everyone to lock their doors.

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So he started transitioning 6 years ago. Does this mean he was taking hormones?

This isn’t the first time. It’s insane. It does nothing to solve the case or promote the truth of the matter. Trans shooters seem to be quite the trend. It makes me question the med protocol.

Jesse Strang, the Tumbler Ridge mass killer

A few years back, the trans community and their allies erupted with fury at Matt Walsh for re-posting this, with the comment “I told you so”:

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