Live Updates: 9 Killed and 25 Injured in Shooting at School and Home in Canada

 

Live Updates: 9 Killed and 25 Injured in Shooting at School and Home in Canada

The shooting occurred in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community in British Columbia. The police said the suspected shooter died of a self-inflicted injury.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/10/world/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting

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Feb. 11, 2026, 5:54 a.m. ET11 minutes ago

Francesca RegaladoVjosa Isai and Yan Zhuang

 

Here’s the latest.

Canada was reeling on Wednesday, a day after a shooter killed nine people and injured 25 others in a remote town in northeastern British Columbia, the third-deadliest shooting in the country’s history that comes amid a wider debate about gun control.

 

Seven people were found dead in Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, including a person believed to be the shooter, who died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted injury, according to Superintendent Ken Floyd of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Two other people were found dead in a local residence that the police believed to be connected to the shooting.

 

Another person died while being transported from the school to the hospital, and 25 people suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, the police said in a statement.

 

Mass killings are rare in Canada, but the attack in Tumbler Ridge, population 2,400, was the second deadly incident in British Columbia in less than a year after a man drove a car into a crowd last April.

 

In 2020 in response to the worst mass shooting in Canadian history — when a rampage by a man disguised as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer left 23 people dead — the federal government took a number of steps to overhaul the gun laws. Among the measures was a ban on 1,500 types of assault-style weapons that was later widened to include freezing handgun sales and expanding the list of banned firearms.

 

A national gun buyback program for military-style assault rifles was also included, which has proved politically divisive and logistically challenging. There are roughly 1.3 million registered firearms in Canada, according to police data.

 

The police have not released the shooter’s identity, details about the firearms used or how they were obtained. Superintendent Floyd said the suspected shooter found dead in the school was the same person mentioned in a police alert at around 1:20 p.m., which described the person as a “female in a dress with brown hair.”

 

The police have not identified the victims or provided their ages, as officers were still notifying their families, Premier David Eby of British Columbia said in a news briefing. Students hid for hours inside the school while the shooting unfolded.

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in a social media post that he was “devastated” by the shooting. Mr. Carney’s office said he would suspend plans to travel on Wednesday to the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

 

Fewer than 200 students are enrolled at the secondary school, according to the websites for the school district and provincial government.

 

The secondary school, the town’s elementary school and a local college were all closed for the rest of the week.

 

Here’s what else to know:

 

Remote community: Tumbler Ridge was originally established as a coal-mining town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, according to the town’s website.

 

Rare attack: In 1989, a gunman in Montreal killed 14 women at a university, and in 2020, 22 people were killed in the eastern province of Nova Scotia. Last year, a man killed 11 people after he drove a van into a crowd at a festival in Vancouver.

 

Rylee Kirk and Pranav Baskar contributed reporting.