2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting

2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting
640m
698yds
Tumbler Ridge Secondary School
Perpetrator's home
Location55°07′57″N 121°00′06″W / 55.1326°N 121.0018°W / 55.1326; -121.0018 (Fellers Avenue)
55°07′26″N 121°00′06″W / 55.1238°N 121.0016°W / 55.1238; -121.0016 (Tumbler Ridge Secondary School)
Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
DateFebruary 10, 2026 (2026-02-10)
c. 2:20 p.m. (MST; UTC-7)
Attack type
WeaponsLong gun, modified rifle, and 2 others
Deaths9 (2 at the perpetrator's home; 7 at the school, including the perpetrator)
Injured27
PerpetratorJesse Van Rootselaar
MotiveUnder investigation

On February 10, 2026, a mass shooting occurred in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and half-brother at their home before going to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where she killed six people and injured twenty-seven others before killing herself. Van Rootselaar was a former student of the school.

The incident was the deadliest mass shooting in Canada since the Nova Scotia attacks in 2020 and the deadliest school shooting in Canada since the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989.