A suspect has been identified in the wake of the horrific mass shooting in western Canada that claimed the lives of nine people and left over two dozen injured.
Police have identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the suspect in what is one of Canada’s worst cases of gun violence in decades, in the small community of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia.
Van Rootselaar was said to have identified as female after transitioning around six years ago, according to Dwayne McDonald, deputy commissioner of the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
McDonald said that officers arrived at the scene within two minutes of a 911 call being made, arriving to active gunfire but finding Van Rootselaar dead shortly after.The RCMP commissioner revealed further grim details of the horrific mass killing on Wednesday, detailing that an adult woman and boy found dead at a residential address were the suspect’s mother, 39, and stepbrother, 11.
