‘Horrific’: Mass shooting leaves 10 dead and suspect identified as transgender
Authorities report that nine victims and the shooter, identified as a transgender youth, are dead after a mass shooting at a Canadian school.
JUST IN: Transgender 17-year old Jesse Strang identified as the school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, killing 10 people. pic.twitter.com/ig7oLxiFpq
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) February 11, 2026
A transgender teenager has killed 10 and injured 25 in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
Jesse Strang, 17, began to identify as a woman in 2023.
Six victims were found dead inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and another died on the way to the hospital. Two more… pic.twitter.com/w4fM4fVRDk
— Europa.com (@europa) February 11, 2026
JUST IN: 17-year-old Jesse Strang (transgender) identified as shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC school massacre – 10 dead (incl. suspect), 25+ injured. Heartbreaking tragedy. #TumblerRidge #canada #shooting pic.twitter.com/n0HDv3LBdA
— Global Flash Alert (@GlobalFlashHQ) February 11, 2026
The mass high school shooting today in BC, Canada where at least 10 are dead and 25 injured in my province at Tumbler Ridge…Word on the street from locals was it was a teen boy dressed as a girl, which is why the police are calling it “gun person” and mainstream media are… pic.twitter.com/W37HkpgmcJ
— Odessa Orlewicz (@OdessaOrlewicz) February 11, 2026
The shooter was reportedly a mentally ill male who identified as trans and pretended to be a girl
Police didn’t want to offend him by “misgendering” him so they called him a “gunperson”
Pure insanity https://t.co/F7Tyg4MbD5 pic.twitter.com/lRA7cYLSLe
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 11, 2026
According to a report at Global News, the massacre happened at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued an alert for an active shooter late Tuesday following gunshots at the school, and, the report said, when officers obtained entry to the building they found six victims dead. Two more victims were found at another location, a home apparently near the school property, and another victim died on the way to the hospital.
“An individual believed to be the shooter was also found dead with what appears to be a self inflicted injury,” the report said. Some 25 more were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Authorities did not immediately release the identity of the dead suspect, but news organizations on social media promptly identified him as Jesse Strang, described as “a teen boy dressed as a girl.”
Nina Krieger, B.C.’s minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, said, “The shock waves of this horrific event will continue to reverberate through the community and throughout the country for some time.”
Tumbler Ridge is in northeastern B.C., south of Chetwynd, about 65 miles west of the Alberta-B.C. border.
Government sources said there were about 175 students in grades 7-12 in the school.
The report said, “Tuesday’s shooting was the deadliest attack connected to a Canadian school in nearly 40 years. More than two dozen people were shot during the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989, killing 14 women before the gunman took his own life.”
Then on Jan. 22, 2016, four people were killed and seven others injured in a shooting spree in the remote Dene community of La Loche. A student, who was 17 at the time, pleaded guilty to charges for the shooting.
Gun restrictions in Canada are more severe than in the United States, as ownership is regulated by the national government and weapons must be kept unloaded and locked. There are severe criminal penalties for anyone handling a gun in an unsafe manner or having one without a license. Hundreds of models of guns simply are banned.