<\/a><\/p>\nShelley Quist said her neighbour across the street lost her 12-year-old. “We heard his mum. She was in the street crying. She wanted her son\u2019s body,” Quist said.<\/p>\n
Quist said her 17-year-old son, Darian, was on lockdown in the school for more than two hours. The provincial government website lists Tumbler Ridge Secondary School as having 175 students in grades 7 to 12.<\/p>\n
“The grade sevens and eights, I think, were upstairs in the library, and that\u2019s where the shooter went,” she said. Her son was in the library just 15 minutes prior to the attack.<\/p>\n
Quist was working at the hospital down the street when the shooting started.<\/p>\n
“I was about to go run down to the school, but my coworker held me back. And then I was able to get Darian on the phone to know he was OK,” she said.<\/p>\n
School shootings are rare in Canada, which has strict gun-control laws. The government has responded to previous mass shootings with gun-control measures, including a recently broadened ban on all guns it considers assault weapons.<\/p>\n
British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters that police reached the school within two minutes.<\/p>\n
A video showed students walking out with their hands raised as police vehicles surrounded the building and a helicopter circled overhead.<\/p>\n
Police found six people dead, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent Ken Floyd said. A seventh person died while being transported to a hospital, and two more were found dead at a residence that authorities believe was connected to the attack.<\/p>\n
Floyd told reporters that investigators had identified the suspect but would not release a name. He said police were investigating the connection between the shooter and the victims.<\/p>\n
Community is a ‘big family’<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters ahead of a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka said it was \u201cdevastating\u201d to learn how many had died in the community, which he called a “big family”.<\/p>\n
“I broke down,” Krakowka said. “I have lived here for 18 years. I probably know every one of the victims.”<\/p>\n
The Reverand George Rowe of the Tumbler Ridge Fellowship Baptist Church went to the recreation center where victims\u2019 families were awaiting more information.<\/p>\n
“It was not a pretty sight. Families are still waiting to hear if it\u2019s their child that\u2019s deceased and because of protocol and procedure, the investigating team is very careful in releasing names,” Rowe said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Rowe once taught at the high school, and his three children graduated from there.<\/p>\n
“To walk through the corridors of that school will never be the same again,” he said.<\/p>\n
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The school district said the high school and elementary school will be closed for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n
Carney\u2019s office said he called off a planned trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Munich, Germany. He had been set to announce a long-awaited defence industrial strategy Thursday in Halifax before heading to Europe for the Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n
Eby on Wednesday said he had spoken to the prime minister about the “unimaginable tragedy”.<\/p>\n
“I know it\u2019s causing us all to hug our kids a little bit tighter tonight,” he said. “I’m asking the people of British Columbia to look after the people of Tumbler Ridge tonight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-279765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-america","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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