{"id":495642,"date":"2026-02-24T05:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495642\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:39:08","slug":"relative-of-tumbler-ridge-shooter-arrested-charged-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495642\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative of Tumbler Ridge shooter arrested, charged in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Van Rootselaar, who is related to Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, has been arrested in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta RCMP tells CityNews it arrested Jacob Van Rootselaar in Sylvan Lake, less than 30 kilometres west of Red Deer, on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Van Rootselaar was arrested on an outstanding Canada-wide warrant from a 2024 Fort McMurray attempted murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with weapon offences and failure to comply with release conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Van Rootselaar\u2019s relative, Jesse Van Rootselaar, was behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/02\/11\/rcmp-confirm-suspects-identity-further-details-of-tumbler-ridge-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School Feb. 10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exact relationship between Jesse and Jacob is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I can confirm on the record is that they are related,\u201d said Cpl. Troy Savinkoff, public information officer for the Central Alberta District RCMP.<\/p>\n<p>1130 NewsRadio has reached out to the RCMP for clarification on the relationship between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Van Rootselaar, who is related to Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, has been arrested in Alberta.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-495642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495642","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=495642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}