{"id":636837,"date":"2026-04-29T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:47:55","slug":"families-of-tumbler-ridge-victims-suing-openai-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636837\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of Tumbler Ridge victims suing OpenAI in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Families of Tumbler Ridge victims suing OpenAI in California<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:25 am Wednesday, April 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The families of seven victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting are suing OpenAI in California for negligence.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints were filed in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 29.<\/p>\n<p>In one, it is alleged that the shooter\u2019s activity was flagged in June by the company\u2019s automated system for \u201cgun violence activity and planning.\u201d This was routed to a specialized response team that urged OpenAI to notify the RCMP. The company did not.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, eight months later, on Feb 10, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar shot and killed two family members in her Tumbler Ridge home before heading to the local secondary school, where she killed six more people. She died of a self-inflicted wound.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman <a href=\"https:\/\/todayinbc.com\/2026\/04\/24\/openai-apologizes-over-missed-warning-following-tumbler-ridge-mass-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sent a written apology to the community<\/a> on April 23, saying he is \u201cdeeply sorry\u201d for the failure.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families of Tumbler Ridge victims suing OpenAI in California Published 9:25 am Wednesday, April 29, 2026 The families&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-636837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636837","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=636837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}