{"id":487488,"date":"2026-02-20T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487488\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:07:15","slug":"calls-for-more-information-on-mental-health-gun-history-of-tumbler-ridge-shooter-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487488\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for more information on mental health, gun history of Tumbler Ridge shooter &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>There are calls to release more information on the mental health and gun issues raised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/tumbler-ridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tumbler Ridge<\/a> mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the days after the tragedy, RCMP said Jesse VanRootselaar had been the subject of several police visits for mental health reasons and had been taken into custody at times for assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Police also said guns had been previously seized from the home, but were returned when the lawful owner asked for them back.<\/p>\n<p>Global News has learned about the existence of documents, sealed by the courts, that could explain why the guns were seized and subsequently returned.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Remembering Tumbler Ridge shooting victims'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WEB_6P_TUMBLER_RIDGE_AFTERM_OM01Q2EI.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3:01<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRemembering Tumbler Ridge shooting victims\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is in every respect, not just as it relates to these files, a huge compelling public interest for transparency, for accountability, for the release of everything and the answers to all questions,\u201d retired RCMP Supt. Russ Grabb told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11672539\/canada-provinces-record-deficits-pressures\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771585634_511_canada-money.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tProvinces are bracing for record deficits. What\u2019s causing budgets to see red?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11673881\/former-prince-andrew-arrested\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771585634_929_01bfdb846e00dc4321b768478ca6a9905c480f343e10bd2bca9c56e73fe1c25f.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFormer prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>B.C.\u2019s Attorney General, Niki Sharma, said the police are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have investigative tools to get to the bottom of questions I know the public has,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be watching that investigation along with the premier, and we will make sure that if there are still unanswered questions that we will get to the bottom of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby said the provincial government will use any processes available to answer questions surrounding the guns used in the shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With files from Global News\u2019 Rumina Daya<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size There are calls to release more information on the mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2169,43,44,41,39,42,40,190488,190601],"class_list":["post-487488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tumbler-ridge","tag-tumbler-ridge-school-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}