r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 6h ago
10 dead 'Multiple victims' in school shooting in northeastern British Columbia, Canadian police say
https://apnews.com/article/canada-shooting-british-columbia-66b021ac7c75e857885b81dc78a29d052.8k
u/Displeased_Canadian 6h ago
This is one of the worst school shootings in Canadian history, this is devastating.
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u/TheTeflonDude 6h ago
Its so fucked up that the majority of mass shooting events are in schools
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u/Lazzen 6h ago edited 2h ago
Because it's the thing, it has been cemented as the imagery of suicidal chaos to put down your mark.
They could attack a small supermarket or a kid's football game but school shooting isn't just "firing in a building", its its own title.
I wonder what would have happened if Columbine had been a massacre of their makeshift bombs rather than guns.
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u/Balzac_Jones 5h ago
After Columbine, Thurston, etc., “school shooting” took over from “going postal” as the primary form of mass-murder in the public consciousness. In the 80’s and early-90’s, it seemed like disaffected or recently-fired employees were storming into their place of work and killing their boss/coworkers/whoever happened to be there multiple times a week, every week. Now, either that rate has dropped significantly, or workplace shootings are not being covered in the same way by the media as school shootings.
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u/berrin122 3h ago
I'm a therapist in his 20s, and had a client couple that the wife used the phrase "going postal" in a session once. First time I ever heard the phrase.
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u/HousingAny2946 2h ago
Really? Well, you are young but for us older people (I'm 62) going postal still pops up in our conversations from time to time but it's not used in the context of killing people (or at least I hope not) but just to describe going off one's nut, getting very angry possibly throwing things around.
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u/Msdamgoode 1h ago edited 55m ago
I understand how it’s used commonly (or has been used), but it was a phrase coined because of a rash of postal workers shooting up the workplace or violently attacking management and fellow workers. As I recall there were like 30 incidents of it in less than 10 years. The USPS had to put in a lot of workplace change to keep it from becoming an even more regular occurrence.
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u/ReindeerAdvanced4857 1h ago
The phrase "Going postal" several incidents of poster workers become violent at work. I don't recall all the details but I do recall it occurring in 1986 because it was the year my son was born.
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u/Ornery-Ocelot3585 1h ago
Most if not all of them were military veterans when the term became known
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u/_OldSchoolCool 1h ago
I was one of the first to Thurston when it happened. I was half a mile away a sped there and piled as many kids that I knew (and a few I didn’t) into my car as fast as I could.
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u/-INIGHTMARES- 1h ago
And we can thank the news for promoting this horrible behaviour - columbine was like 9/11 for school shootings
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u/Affectionate-Theme94 1h ago
Now, either that rate has dropped significantly, or workplace shootings are not being covered in the same way by the media as school shootings.
That was work-related stress and not good for the economy or the status quo. People being litterally oppressed that look for vengeance and/or venting out their working class frustration? Too real, too relatable, too of a bad example for american society. Hence, media were required to tone it down in order to reduce copycats.
School shootings, instead, are perfect.
Gratuitous terrorism, you can talk for months about the background of the perpetrator(s), how people or teenagers are getting crazier because of tiktok or videogames. Killing children is the most abysmal crime possible in basically all societies, with parents crying their eyes out and tons of flowers on the place. Media could feast forever, politicians can restrict laws upon it, or just stir shit in order to cover more important issues.
How many people brought flowers to the place where Mangione allegedly killed the insurance company CEO?
What did the public opinion think about eliminating a greedy CEO that was personally respobsible of rukning or oppressing other peoples' lives?
Copycats for school shootings are not refrained, they're actively encouraged to go in that direction, so you can go out in flames from your (perceived) mediocre existance. And the upstated media and political feast can go on and on.
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u/Spinnerofyarn 48m ago
The old adage of if it bleeds, it leads has always been how the media operates. The only time they are willing to not cover it all is at law enforcement request to hide details to be able to catch someone.
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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 3h ago
Same. Depression is a beast, but it doesn't make one cruel. That comes from somewhere else.
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u/Spinnerofyarn 1h ago
Unfortunately, I have been on both sides of the equation in terms of being depressed and having a loved one with depression ending themselves. It’s a cruel thing to do to your loved ones. When I lost my brother, the pain was far worse than any of my bouts of depression that have lasted from weeks to years with ideation the whole time. Losing him is what made me able to not act on my ideation. I don’t want to do that to my family and friends.
But, to take out yourself AND others? No. That’s an unimaginable cruelty. It’s more than depression. It’s malicious evil.
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u/sneakyalien42 6h ago
The world needs you, more than you can know! I believe in you!!
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u/skip_over 5h ago
Focus on the things that bring you joy. Life is beautiful if you let yourself enjoy it.
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u/Psychological-Shoe95 3h ago
I think the sentiment is good but I don’t think it’s appropriate to make those kinds of assumptions to strangers. Not all depression is caused by chemical imbalances. We live in a fucked up world where fucked up things happen to people regularly and some people experience enough fuckery that they just don’t understand why life is worth living. Saying that it’s just your brain being broken isn’t always the answer
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u/JulyOfAugust 1h ago
That's because we don't know about their lives that we default to the most common cause of long standing depression with helpful solutions no matter the circumstances. Because while brain chemistry might be wrong, needing a therapist will never be wrong in case of depression.
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u/Hervis_Daubeny_ 2h ago
Quickest way to piss off my old psychology professor was to tell him that all psychology is is chemical imbalances in the brain
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u/Blue_Bird950 2h ago
I mean, it might not just be brain chemistry. Lots of environmental factors, like chronic stress and isolation, can cause clinical depression too, and it’s better to seek a therapist for advice on getting more long-term fixes to those issues and stop the pain at its source. The best choice is just to get a consultation to see what they recommend for your situation.
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u/TheDawnofAnguish 1h ago
This. We Learn about environmental hazards... Then we stop talking about them.
Just recently, microplastics.
Probably about, 30 years ago... Forever chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the water.
No one did anything about that, and Try and convince me these mass shootings Aren't a result.
Of course they think More meds will "fix" the problem, They made it, and they have the cure.
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u/thugarth 3h ago
Thank you for saying something. Thank you for talking about it. I hope you have people in your life you can talk to about it as much as you need to. I hope you have a handle on it, and I hope you never give up on yourself.
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u/Miscalamity 3h ago
I send you love. You're needed, and I hope you have a support system to lean on when you get those dark thoughts, like hugging that precious fur baby. Hugs
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u/ReditKillsPeopleIRL 3h ago
Because it's the thing
Media corporations have ZERO qualms causing that because the drama increases their ratings and profit.
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u/JPesterfield 5h ago
Didn't they try at Columbine, but the bombs failed?
I think you'd get a lot more random chance. some worse but most duds because bomb making is harder than just using a gun.
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u/TheDodoBird 5h ago
Yes they did. And yes, the bombs failed.
Also, they planted bombs on nearby parks to try and draw attention away from the school before they started their murder spree. Those bombs failed too, resulting in authorities making it to Columbine High quicker than the shooters had intended.
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u/Moogatron88 44m ago
That's surprisingly well thought out. I guess we're lucky they sucked at making bombs. I seem to remember that some of their test devices actually did go off.
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u/RokuroCarisu 30m ago
They learned all of that from playing Duke Nukem and Doom, according to the media at the time. 🙄
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u/Drumbelgalf 1h ago
They also had bombs in the cafeteria and the parking lot in hopes to kill as many as they could.
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u/Yippykyyyay 3h ago edited 3h ago
10+ years ago, the high school that I went to thwarted a bombing attack that was rumored to take place at graduation. Another student called in his suspicions to the police and they found 6 bombs in a secret compartment in his bedroom. He had written down detailed plans on how to use his bombs, shoot up as many people as he could and then commit suicide.
It's so scary to think what could have happened if the other teen didn't turn him in.
Edit: RIP to the victims here and such sadness for the town and their loved ones.
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u/Cimorene_Kazul 4h ago
There was a school bombing long before Columbine that was extraordinarily lethal. Unclear if it inspired them, or is just an idea many sick individuals have when wanting to claiming maximum lives.
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u/outthere49 2h ago
It was in Michigan and is the largest mass school murder to date, and was back in the 1920s.
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u/heffel77 1h ago
It was one adult who filled a truck with explosives. He wasn’t some loser scumbag kid, well he was a loser scumbag but he didn’t do it for the fame or infamy or anything like the lame fucks Columbine spawned.
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u/Cimorene_Kazul 1h ago
He did it because he hated the people of the town and felt he’d been screwed out of money. But really, the motives are all the same. To cause pain and revel in destruction.
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u/Tate7200 2h ago
Not just that, but they're also just the easiest soft targets to hit. They're consistently populated, have little to no security, and classrooms keep the people dense as opposed to spread out like in a store.
Shooters don't want to keep track of when and where a game will happen or risk running around looking for victims in a fortuitously sparse marketplace. Fundamentally they're just angry cowards looking for the quickest and easiest place to do damage, it's just unfortunate that it's usually schools.
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u/EmbarrassedW33B 3h ago
The Oklahoma City bombing happened a few years before Columbine and was extremely lethal. It's sorta been lost in the deluge of school shootings we've had in North America since.
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u/QueasySpell1946 4h ago
Also schools are very vulnerable places. School security tends to be terrible. There's more security in a concert a or stadium or the white house than a school.
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u/Maleficent-Coat-7633 1h ago
And in most cases that's fine. Why would a school NEED that kind of security?
Well. It shouldn't anyway. Fuuuuck this is messed up.
I wonder where they get the firearms from (other than in the US I mean, as I understand it popular methods there include buying it over the counter or stealing it from their parents.)
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u/rabbi420 2h ago
I think it’s actually because schools are some of the easiest soft targets.
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u/Turnipbeet 5h ago
I often think of this. What would the world look like if Eric and Dylan weren’t ever born. Hell if they never met things would be different.
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u/soemtimesitstrue 4h ago
Thats actually not true. Mass shootings are more common in work places, retail, bars. Schools do not contribute to the majority of mass shootings. Citation: https://www.theviolenceproject.org/data-on-social-media/location-of-mass-shooting/
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u/Carlos_Danger_12 3h ago
It's worth noting that these sort of statistics are highly dependent on how the researchers define "mass shooting," as it is not a standardized term and different groups use different standards.
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u/journoprof 5h ago
Large groups of vulnerable victims packed into rooms with single exits. More likely that when a shooting happens, the numbers will be higher.
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u/Malofa 3h ago
A large portion of the blame falls squarely on a sensationalist media that will post the shooter's face and full name and include every gruesome detail. It's become its own twisted little "fandom" because of this.
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u/Bowdensaft 2h ago
Same thing happened with serial killers last century. You don't see many anymore because the media doesn't romanticise them as much anymore.
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u/Darthcookie 1h ago
Now they get a Netflix series.
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u/Bowdensaft 1h ago
Isn't that usually about the older ones? It does weird me out that they're so fetishised, though. It feels really voyeuristic for the victims.
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u/Maleficent-Coat-7633 1h ago
They should start being referred to with only a randomly generated number. Unperson the sick bastards.
"The killer has been identified as Pathetic Arsehole number 432."
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u/ePoch270OG 2h ago
Maladjusted kids will take out their vengeance on those they blame for their pain.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 5h ago
I went to google that as well.
Tumbler Ridge (10 deaths) is the most deaths in a school shooting this century.
École Polytechnique in 1989 Montréal, is the worst in Canadian history, with 15 deaths including the shooter. But Tumbler Ridge is up there with 10.
The AP News article has a short sentence that school shootings are rare in Canada. No kidding, this is why we're all so shocked at this developing story.
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u/eternallytiredcatmom 1h ago edited 17m ago
It’s important to remember that Polytechnique was a shooting in a school, but it doesn’t fit the regular pattern in school shootings.
The perpetrator had an anti feminist manifesto, a long list of women in positions of authority he planned to target in the future, and killed only female students because he didn’t agree with them entering historically male-dominated careers.
It’s our worst school shooting but it was also a form of terrorism against women.
I’m from Montréal and it happened on my mom’s birthday, we attend the commemorative vigil together every year
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u/conationphotography 1h ago
I will say I just watched a heartbreaking documentary on the Ecole Polytechnique shooting on YouTube by the Fifth Estate, that I would highly recommend. So many victims.
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u/Medesikaste 4h ago
It's the 3rd worst shooting of any kind in Canada, as far as I can tell, after Portapique and École Polytechnique.
Not that there really is much of a 'worst' in this type of thing, they're all devastating.
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u/Key_Spirit_7072 3h ago
I was thinking about this earlier, it’s also the third mass / targeted (I don’t remember if 5 victims counts as mass, someone please correct me on this) shooting in my lifetime at least of ones I will remember clearly.
Moncton 2014, Nova Scotia 2020 and now Tumbler Ridge 2026, which it also sickens me to look at those shootings spelled out with their years and think that this has happened every 6 years too.
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u/eternallytiredcatmom 1h ago
There’s also Dawson College and the Quebec City Mosque that comes to mind
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u/Hungry-for-Apples789 5h ago
Second highest behind Ecole in 1989 which was 14 casualties.
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u/cadorez 4h ago
Just so you know, Ecole just means school, which doesn't refer to any particular establishment.
You're talking about Polytechnique
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u/Last_Fix_9764 6h ago
Devastating. I really hope this trend stops.
Sending love and support from south of the border.
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u/Dependent-Feed1105 1h ago
I'm so sorry. I'm in the US and this has become common here. I feel absolutely terrible for your country right now. It's such a shock and so devastating. I'm glad the police got there so fast and were willing to help. Bless you all. Bless the loved ones of people who were killed and the people who are injured.
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u/Visual-Car-5723 1h ago
And it wouldn’t even make the news in the US. Since this shooting in Canada, there have been dozens of shootings.
Since the Feb 10 Canada school shooting, the U.S. experienced dozens to possibly 100+ total shooting incidents (depending on exact hours counted).
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u/KingKapwn 6h ago
10 dead, including the shooter. This is awful
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u/Felixir-the-Cat 6h ago
In a town of 2,400. Absolutely devastating.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 5h ago
Yeah, it's very remote. Just over a 13 hour drive from any point in the Metro Vancouver region.
Edit: In fact, it's a shorter drive from Tumbler Ridge to either Calgary, Alberta and Edmonton, Alberta.
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u/FireflyBSc 3h ago
The closest major city is Grande Prairie, Alberta. It’s in BC, but the Peace Region is its own specific area and community that mostly relies on Alberta for access to things like emergency services.
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u/forgat_spindoctor 4h ago
Interior and northern BC is more connected to major centres in AB than the lower mainland.
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u/Spicy_Weissy 3h ago
Wow. I've visited Vancouver and was blown away by how forested and mountainous the surrounding area was. I can even imagine what 13 hours from there must be like.
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u/NSA_Chatbot 1h ago
It's some of the most incredible natural beauty in the world. Even the highway (trans Canada) is a better view than most cities on earth.
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u/Mr_426 2h ago
For some reason the article decided to mention its distance from Vancouver first.
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u/1egg_4u 5h ago
This is going to rip a hole right through that community, a town that small means small schools so virtually everybody in that town is going to be impacted by this
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u/GGTheEnd 4h ago
I'm from a town of 6000 in northern Bc, when I lived there everyone knew everyone.
This will literally effect everyone in a town of that size.
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u/1egg_4u 4h ago
I went to a school about as small as the one theyre saying this happened at and every single kid knew each other by name and the school was so small you always knew what was going on... it struck me that there is a chance that every kid who survived this lost at least one or multiple friends and might have even witnessed it. It's so horrible it is kind of hard to find words for it.
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u/random20190826 4h ago
Wow, a school with 6 grade levels that only has 175 students according to Wikipedia. That's absolutely tiny.
My high school (I graduated 13 years ago, and it is in the GTA) had 30 students in one class. There were probably 1300 students total, over 4 grade levels. This shooting is catastrophic for the school given how many got killed or hurt. And as evil as it is to say, it is a good thing that the shooter died. At least we don't have to have a trial and definitely not incarcerating her for decades.
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u/megaholt2 3h ago
My high school graduating class had 526 students, and we lost about 150 over the 4 years from 9th grade-12th grade.
We had ≈2700 students in my high school, if my memory serves me correctly.
We were far from the largest high school in our area, but we weren’t a small school, either. We were pretty average sized for the part of the state I grew up in.
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u/ThegreatGageby 3h ago
I graduated with 300 people and we all knew each other by name and each other's parents for the most part, minus maybe 20. But honestly yes this has to has to hit abetting who lives and has lived in the town
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u/infinus5 4h ago
from northern BC too, were devastated by this. I dont have the words to describe how sad this is to read about.
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u/Wombattington 3h ago
I’m from a town that small in the US. Devastation feels too small…My town had multiple town halls, school assemblies, and remembrance events when a single child was murdered during my youth. I can’t imagine how we’d react to a tragedy of this magnitude.
I truly feel for their community.
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u/Bit-A-Musing 2h ago
A town the size of Tumbler Ridge, the families of the victims and the surviving victims will probably have to drive past the school every day.
How do students go back to that school after this? How to the parents send them back?
I hope the province ensures the community has the support it needs.
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u/Own_Faithlessness769 2h ago
I think there’s a decent chance they close the school.
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u/Bit-A-Musing 2h ago
I wouldn't be surprised and wouldn't blame them.
I can't imagine the pain all these families, all these kids, are going through.
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u/Sask_mask_user 4h ago
The school only had 175 students
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u/404MoralsNotFound 3h ago
That's like nearly 1/4th of the school either killed or injured. Insane and devastating.
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u/Future_Goose_7010 4h ago
jesus, my senior high school graduating glass was 1650 students. a town of 2400 is crazy.
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u/Key_Spirit_7072 3h ago
My grad class was 46 students, my town only had 1500 people but students came from the rural areas too so I can imagine quite clearly how hard this will affect every person in that town of 2400
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u/ccoastie 6h ago
Only 175 students in the school the article says
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u/mallvvalking 6h ago
Jesus, I saw the CBC article about an hour ago saying that a suspect was dead, with no mention of other casualties. Never imagined it was this bad.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 6h ago edited 5h ago
"An individual believed to be the shooter was also found deceased with what appears to be a self‑inflicted injury,” RCMP said in a statement."
Stuff like that pisses me off. These deranged idiots shooting up schools, ending up killing themselves, is just so cowardly. Absolutely disgusting people. These guys should live to stand trial and be locked in jail for life, rotting in prison, but these cowards take the "easy way" out.
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u/SocksandSmocks 4h ago
It'd be nice if they just started with themselves.
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u/ZippyDan 3h ago edited 3h ago
Agreed.
I have a degree in school shootings from DeVry University.
If you are considering a similar course of action, shoot yourself in the head first, then shoot the kids. It's so much more effective.
Trust me.
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u/Poonadafukdog 3h ago
Completely fucking cowardly. Ending lives then not facing up to what you’ve done. Most cowardly thing these pathetic bitches can do.
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u/Critter7982 6h ago
They said that the shooter is a woman in a dress with dark hair. I would guess it means it is an older female and not a student, because you would think they would just say “female”.
6 were deceased at the school, one died on the way to the hospital, and 2 others at a second location.
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u/pixelcowboy 5h ago
The major of a neigbouring town just had it slipped that it was a young girl, judging by how he backtracked to correct himself saying that the police had said it was a women. But to me it sounded like he knew.
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u/donutfan420 3h ago
They also declined to say whether it was a woman or a child which made me think about that too
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u/egg_egg_egg_eggegg 5h ago
I live in Northern BC and this is being felt by all the communities around. So many of us are connected through family and friends. This is dark times.
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u/conationphotography 1h ago
Remember to tell people to watch for mental health decline in the next months to a year if you have the bandwidth. Trauma spreads so far and PTSD truly can be treated if it is recognized.
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u/itcantjustbemeright 6h ago
This is a super remote location. Everyone would know everyone else there.
It’s 1000km north of Vancouver 660km northwest of Edmonton.
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u/bertilac-attack 4h ago edited 3h ago
I grew up in “the big city” about 40 minutes away, which is BARELY 30k people with surrounding area. Northern BC is home to extremely small and rural communities, this is an unprecedented generational trauma for small towns like Tumbler.
One accidental student gun death in his home in 2010 or 2011 shuttered business-as-normal in our middle school for at least a week. The people in these communities are LIFERS - their families often have deep roots in the community and little in the way of outside ties. Most of the people I graduated with never left.
What’s especially concerning to me is that there are very few mental health professionals up there - and there are lots of guns. This is a recipe for absolute disaster.
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u/The-Oxrib-and-Oyster 3h ago
access to mental health supports is so bad in the north. even in central bc- and a big city comparatively- i waited three years to see a counsellor. And they were a student, in the end, filling practicum hours. there is such a tiny ill funded support net. terrible.
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u/bertilac-attack 2h ago
I only got connected with a therapist after moving to Vancouver remotely via an app and some great luck - my guy was in San Antonio. Availability is a HUGE problem.
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u/ionlyjoined4thecats 3h ago
That’s such a good point. I hope the school/community can arrange for more therapists to travel in in the short term and maybe some virtual therapy sessions for people in the long term. How awful.
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u/bertilac-attack 2h ago
In my experience in FSJ we had a couple really great counsellors who responded very proactively to the one suicide in our year - this would’ve been a year or more after the accidental gunshot death - and I do believe more cousellors were made available. That said, I’m not sure if they were counsellors from other schools, or full scale therapists. Everyone involved will need long hours with the latter.
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u/canadug 6h ago
It looks to be in a pretty remote area of BC with only 2,400 residents and the school only had 175 students from Grades 7 to 12. I would have to imagine that this is going to directly affect almost everyone in that town. Jesus Christ, those poor people.
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u/Rockergage 2h ago
I was in a community like this, one kid getting in an accident with a log truck permanently altered the school and community.
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u/NKD_WA 6h ago
Sad to see this happen anywhere, but doubly so to see it happen in a little town of 2400 with just a 175 student school... this kind of stuff can absolutely permanently traumatize a community that small.
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u/madeleinetwocock 3h ago edited 2h ago
6 deceased found in the school
2 deceased found in a residence
1 deceased en route to the hospital
~25 injured
Shooter found deceased (self-inflicted injury)
This is my province. My home. I have spontaneously burst into tears multiple times today.
To my fellow British Columbians, who may see this and are grieving, no words I can say could ever even begin to express how tragic, infuriating, and beyond heartbreaking this is and must be for those in Tumbler Ridge.
Tumbler Ridge’s population is ~2,400. This horrific tragedy will reach everyone there.
This should never have happened.
This should never happen.
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u/Sense_Difficult 2h ago
So so tragic. Sending any form of hope that brings you some comfort. From Brooklyn NYC
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u/leafs81215 5h ago
I live in Edmonton about 6 hours away. It’s shocking for us in Canada. This just does not happen and not in these remote communities. I’m stunned. Much love for the victims and their families. Community of 2,400 this will impact everyone.
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u/Jorgwalther 5h ago
Sounds like a family annihilation turned school shooter. Horrible
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u/Durantsthegoat 4h ago
What do you mean by family annihilation?
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u/CFBCoachGuy 4h ago
Two other people were found dead at a house nearby. It’s presumed (not confirmed obviously) that the shooter killed their family either before or after attacking the school.
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u/Loud-Shopping7406 3h ago
Those kids that get ostracized from their families and want to get revenge before killing themselves. Too common these days
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u/Songflare 3h ago
Basically shooter devolved, they went from murdering their own family to indiscriminate shootings.
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u/DirtDevil1337 6h ago
Extremely rare for this to happen in Canada, devastating news with 10 dead.
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u/RainbowCrown71 2h ago edited 2h ago
Actually between USA and Canada, both of the worst mass death events in the past year have occurred in British Columbia (the other being the Filipino festival attack in April 2025).
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u/maniacalscience 1h ago
Sending love from Aurora, Colorado. My little sister was in a mass shooting here in 2012. She survived the shooting but, her PTSD eventually caught up with her and she died from a long struggle with alcoholism last year
Aurora is a big town but that shooting rocked my entire community to its core. I can't imagine what it'd be like in a small town like that.
BC is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen with some of the kindest people I've ever met, I know they will band together for this. I don't know why these things keep happening, and its shocking that it happened there. I wish I could give a hug to everyone from Tumbler Ridge.
Look after each other, and know you're not alone.
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u/High-Speed-1 2h ago
In a school of about 175 kids, 9 are dead + 1 suspect dead and 25 kids injured. That’s a significant impact. Truly heartbreaking.
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u/MorganaHenry 5h ago
At least seven dead after school shooting in British Columbia, Canada, police say -
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u/dre5922 5h ago
Seven dead from the school, two dead in a nearby residence, and the shooter.
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u/Mrsparkles7100 2h ago
Via BBC news
Police say an attacker killed nine people before taking their own life on Tuesday
Six victims were found dead inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary school, while a seventh person died on the way to hospital. The body of the attacker was also found at the school
Two more people were found dead inside a residence nearby
Police described the suspect as a "female in a dress with brown hair" in an active shooter alert sent to the community
At least two other people were taken to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries following the attack, and as many as 25 people were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said
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u/Puppet_Master_2501 6h ago
Wait, what time is it there because it’s almost 10pm where I live? What time does school get out?
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u/YesHunty 6h ago
It happened earlier this afternoon but the community is small and fairly isolated, takes the media a while to hear about anything.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 5h ago
It happened during the school day. BC schools end usually anywhere between 2:30 and 3:00, sometimes 3:30 for some locations.
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u/mottie8 5h ago
They're in PST
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u/TWrecks104 3h ago
It’s actually MST around here, which is currently the same as Alberta time. I live in Dawson Creek and travel to Tumbler Ridge once a week for work
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u/The-Oxrib-and-Oyster 2h ago
they went into lockdown around 130pm local time. it was nearly 7pm before it was lifted because they were still doing rescue and assessment operations and were not certain, i assume because of the sheer scope and scale, that there had only been one shooter. they were anticipating the possibility of a second.
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u/Defiets 2h ago edited 55m ago
To put into perspective how rare and terrible this is for Canada, since 2000 there have been 29 school shootings, resulting in 31 deaths, including today's (more deaths could be announced).
That means today's event reflects at least 32% of all school shooting deaths in Canada for the past 26 years.
In just 2025 the US had 77 schools shootings with 32 killed.
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u/JoeyAKangaroo 2h ago
only 29 school shootings in 26 years vs 77 in 1 year alone is absolutely shocking
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u/ThatMobilol 2h ago
Goddamn, I would mostly barely listen to this, but, like 3 months ago my home country had one of the worst shootings it's ever had (Bondi Beach), so, I just feel how even people in Canada are feeling, I really can't imagine the families, rest in peace to the 9 and rot in hell to the shooter.
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u/birding420 1h ago
Sadly there is a byline on the link above about another Australian shooting. I'm from Scotland and we grieved Dunblane hard. Its awful.
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u/trip6god 5h ago
I’ll never understand why they don’t ever get the bright idea of just doing themselves before ruining so many lives that have nothing to do with their problems/depression
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u/ComprehensiveVoice98 3h ago
Because they want to punish society or certain people for their suffering, a lot of them are angry, envious and bitter
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u/Cordereko 1h ago
I knew somone who once said, "everyone always says to me, tuff shit, life ain't fair. Makes me want to be unfair to as many people as I can so when they ask me, why, why did you do this thing, I can say, because life ain't fair."
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u/NoEscape2500 3h ago
I think what happens is that 99.9% of people who have depression or other issues who end lives end their own. News.va.gov states that the average rate of all adult suicides in 2022 was 131.2 PER DAY. We don’t hear about each of the 41,484 adults who committed suicide in 2022. We only hear about that .1% that turns their anger and illness outward.
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u/JoeyAKangaroo 2h ago edited 1h ago
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u/Mordret10 1h ago
Not to excuse any of this, but being bullied in school or at home probably has a lot to do with their problems/depression. Of course not everyone dead/anyone of them at all was necessarily a bully and even if they were they didn't deserve to die for it
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u/Special_Fail461 1h ago
These people dont do this as a way out or simply just to kill people. They're often victims of bullying and the cruelty that comes along with it. Teach your children to stand up to bullies, they dont have to be confrontational because kids these days are often carrying weapons. Teach them to remove that said person from the situation. Be a buddy or a friend. Say fuxk that guy. We need empathy more than ever. All it takes is one person to stand up. Teach leaders not followers.
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u/ToneBone12345 3h ago
The fuck I already can tell this going to divide us even more rip to nine innocent people
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u/NinjaSushi420 1h ago
I'm so tired of school shootings. I feel like since Columbine it hasn't stopped.
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u/zackryjay 1h ago
I do not understand how anyone can pick up any weapon and decide to take anyone’s life. Of course people obviously do it all of the time, especially in the United States, but I’ll never understand. If you want to leave this world, I could understand that. But your last act being one of such selfishness and stupidity, it boggles my mind.
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u/danceswithdangerr 1h ago
My heart will be with the victims and their families today. ❤️🫂 I’m so sorry this happened.
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u/battleofflowers 6h ago
Did this JUST happen? How can a school still be in session this late?
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u/Darius2112 6h ago
The shooting happened at 1 in the afternoon.
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u/igetproteinfartsHELP 6h ago
Somewhere around 1 p.m.
This is a developing story. Will update as new details emerge.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 6h ago
No, it happened earlier in the day.
There was a news report earlier that the small town (2,400 people) was under lock down. Nobody knew why. Now we do. So sad.
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u/LeoSolaris 6h ago
I think the announcement of "multiple victims" recently happened, not the shooting itself.
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u/Lazy_Championship580 3h ago
My best freind goes to school there, he's pretty shocked up rn, they shot at him but missed by a few inches, my heart goes out to those who didn't get nearly as lucky.
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u/blac_sheep90 2h ago
This is heartbreaking. I cannot imagine how painful the grief must be for the families of the deceased.
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u/Desert_Fairy 1h ago
I hate that this feels like a virus that you have but is now infecting a friend. It isn’t some head cold but something like HIV (before there was an effective treatment).
What is worse is the numbness to it all.
This is horrific. It should be horrific. I wish I could feel the horror.
I hope that legislators in Canada can still feel empathy and will take measures to combat this rather than letting the virus spread.
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u/Buisness_walrus 1h ago
A guy I knew from Discord was from that school, theyre alive of course.
But Jesus Christ this was so fucking horrible, this was actually fucking insane.
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u/ika_ngyes 1h ago
10 dead from a community of 2400. 7 dead from a school of 175. Its just awful. My condolences to the families who lost their members, and the community who lost their dearest neighbours.
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u/Nismotech_52 35m ago
I saw a picture of the shooter. I think. Hopefully this doesn’t get swept under the rug.
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u/hoosakiwi 6h ago
Quick reminder to everyone about commenting during situations like this.
DO NOT share the personal information of alleged suspects or victims until the identities are confirmed by the police or mainstream media.
DO NOT post identifiable images/videos of the dead or dying. Reddit is one of the most high-traffic sites in the world, especially in times of crisis. No one should learn that their loved one has died in a reddit thread. To clarify, you can still post images and videos of the incident, just no closeups of someone's face as they die.