{"id":493877,"date":"2026-02-23T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:16:08","slug":"rcmp-cant-corroborate-veracity-of-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493877\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP can&#8217;t corroborate &#8216;veracity&#8217; of threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">RCMP say they have not been able to corroborate the \u201cveracity\u201d of multiple threats being received in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in the wake of the recent school shooting there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A short statement issued Sunday from B.C. RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Kris Clark says Mounties became aware of threats that circulated online and within the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clark says that investigators\u2019 assessment of the situation has determined that the \u201cveracity of the multiple threats being received have not been corroborated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He says police take all threats seriously, including these reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Saturday police said they were investigating threats and that a safety plan had been put in place in the community, with one victim\u2019s family reporting that they had left their home and cancelled her funeral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The small community of fewer than 3,000 people was the site of a mass shooting on Feb. 10 where the shooter shot and killed her mother and half-brother before going to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and killing five students and an educational assistant before killing herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCMP say they have not been able to corroborate the \u201cveracity\u201d of multiple threats being received in Tumbler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,713,47,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-493877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-justice","10":"tag-national","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493877","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=493877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}