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Jesse Strang, 18, identified as Canadian school shooter who murdered nine, injured 27 before dying by suicide – transgender teen struggled with mental health issues

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4eac737b772c1d3eccfe1543aa8890b4 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Canadian police said mass shooter in the second deadliest school shooting in Canadian history that left 10 people dead&comma; <strong>is a transgender teenager&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3540182504f48a36379ab731e99cfa27 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Jesse Strang&comma; 18&comma;&comma; opened fire in the library at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia on Tuesday afternoon<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cd079132388109713963f62c3794e000 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Fatalities include a 39-year-old female teacher&comma; three 12-year-old female students&comma; and two male students&comma; ages 12 and 13 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b37bf0f7a822e992ba0a14cc44196364 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Strang killed his mother Jennifer Strang&comma; 39&comma; and stepbrother Emmett&comma; 11&comma; at their home beforehand <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-447c8a6ecd8ab1eec25ad53756b6cf91 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Born Jesse Van Rootselaar&comma; the biological male began identifying as a girl six years ago<&sol;strong>&comma; and dropped out of school four years ago&comma; aged 14<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cb9eeef90086b84b918bce075e2f4894 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>In the past seven years there have been multiple call-outs to his home related to his mental health&comma; Canadian police said<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Jesse-Strang-at-a-shooting-range-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493256" style&equals;"width&colon;788px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>School mass shooter&comma; transgender teen Jesse Strang&comma; &lbrack;seen at a gun range&rsqb;&comma; was described as a &&num;8216&semi;gun person&&num;8217&semi;&period; Born Jesse Van Rootselaar&comma; the biological male began identifying as a girl six years ago&period; On Tuesday he killed 9 people&comma; injured 27&comma; before taking his own life&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A gunman who murdered nine people in the second deadliest school shooting in Canadian history is a transgender tearaway who also killed his mother and brother&period; <br>Transgender teen Jesse Van Rootselaar&comma; who adopted the name Jesse Strang when he transitioned&comma; opened fire in the library at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia on Tuesday afternoon&period;<br>The people killed at the school included a 39-year-old female educator&comma; three 12-year-old female students&comma; a 12-year-old male student and a 13 year-old male student&period; <br>One victim was found in a stairwell&period; The others were found in the school library&comma; police said&period;<br>Prior to the school rampaged&comma; 18-year-old Strang killed his mother Jennifer Strang&comma; 39&comma; and 11-year-old stepbrother Emmett at their home&period; A young female family member went to a neighbor&comma; who called police&period; <br>With officers arriving at the school two minutes after the initial call&comma; shots were fired in their direction&period;<br>Strang was found dead inside the school&comma; reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot injury&period; Officers recovered a long gun and a modified handgun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Jesse-Strang-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493259" style&equals;"width&colon;785px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Screen capture from Youtube channel connected to transgender teen&comma; Jesse Strang&comma; Now deleted&comma; the YouTube account was created on Nov&period; 25&comma; 2018&comma; under the name &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;jesseboy347 strang&comma;” later renamed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;JessJessUwU&period;” The updated profile listed the pronouns she&sol;her <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">27 people were injured at the school Two wounded victims who were airlifted to hospitals are in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;critical but stable” condition&comma; police&period;<br>Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Wednesday said Strang was an18-year-old biological male&comma; Jesse Van Rootselaar&comma; who it is understood adopted his mother&&num;8217&semi;s name&comma; Strang&comma; socially and at school after his transition&period; <br>Jesse who began identifying as female six years ago&comma; aged 12&period; Four years ago she dropped out of the same school at the age of 14&period; <br>In the past seven years there have been multiple call-outs to his home related to his mental health&comma; an RCMP spokesperson said&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Maya-Gebala-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493244" style&equals;"width&colon;774px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>12-year-old student Maya Gebala is the only survivor identified so far in Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s school shooting in Tumble Ridge&comma; BC<&sol;strong>&period; <strong>One of 27 injured&comma; Maya was shot in the head and neck&comma; she is receiving urgent medical treatment at a hospital in Vancouver&comma; her family said <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Kylie-May-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493275" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;1&period;7674647968705282&semi;width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>12-year-old Kylie May &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; has been identified as one of the fatalities of Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s shooting<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">On one of those police call outs two years ago&comma; legal firearms were seized from the home&period; However&comma; the lawful owner got them back after petitioning to have them returned&period; The most recent police call to the residence was in the spring of 2025&period;<br>Strang was described as a &&num;8216&semi;gun person&&num;8217&semi; by police&period; Raised in a family that valued hunting&comma; Strang learned to shoot rifles from a young age&period; Guns were kept in the home&period; Going by Jennifer Strang&&num;8217&semi;s posts on Facebook&comma; her son had behavioral issues and violent tendencies early on in life&period;<br>Online sleuths uploaded screen capture from a Youtube channel purportedly connected to transgender teen&comma; Jesse Strang&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Jesse-Strang-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493261" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;1&period;0015676025192422&semi;width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Unconfirmed reports say this is an image of transgender school mass shooter Jesse Strang<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Now deleted&comma; the YouTube account was created on Nov&period; 25&comma; 2018&comma; under the name &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;jesseboy347 strang&comma;” later renamed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;JessJessUwU&period;” The updated profile listed the pronouns she&sol;her&period; <br>Another screen capture of a social media post by Jennifer Strang appears to confirm that the account where images of Jesse have been culled from&comma; indeed have been associated with her son&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Jennifer-Strang-post-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493262"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>This post by Jennifer Strang appears to confirm that the account where images of Jesse have been culled from&comma; indeed have been associated with her son<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">ten people died and a total of 27 people were injured in Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s multi-location mass shooting&period; However&comma; other than the shooter&comma; only one fatality and one of the survivors have been identified by their families&period;<br>12-year-old Kylie May was killed while Maya Gebala&comma; also 12&comma; who was shot in the neck and head is currently being treated in hospital&period; <br>Strang is also believed to have used she&sol;her pronouns on his since-deleted social media accounts&period; <br>Locals said Strang was a &&num;8216&semi;quiet kid&&num;8217&semi; who was often seen &&num;8216&semi;sitting by himself in the corner&&num;8217&semi;&period; His mother Jennifer and younger brother were well known in the quiet rural community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Mass-shooting-at-Tumbler-Ridge-Secondary-School-in-British-Columbia-Canada-1-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493248" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Circulating videos show the students being were led out of as first responders rushed to the school within minutes of reported shooting <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Among the at least two dozen children and teachers injured in the attack is 12-year-old Maya Gebala who was shot in the head and neck&period; Maya&&num;8217&semi;s family said she was hit by shrapnel during the shooting&period;<br>Her mother Cia Edmonds said she was by her critically wounded daughter&&num;8217&semi;s bedside after she was airlifted to Vancouver Children&&num;8217&semi;s Hospital&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Today started as any other&period; Now&comma; however&comma; my 12-year-old daughter is fighting for her life while they try to repair the damage from a gunshot wound to the head&comma; and one to the neck&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said in a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gofundme&period;com&sol;f&sol;support-for-maya-in-her-road-to-recovery">Gofundme <&sol;a>page which within hours had raised &dollar;118&comma;161 of the &dollar;140&comma;000 target&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;She was a lucky one&comma; I suppose&period; Condolences to the other families during this tragedy&period; This doesn&&num;8217&semi;t even feel real&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I never thought I would be asking for prayers&&num;8230&semi; but please&comma; please pray for my baby&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Mass-shooting-at-Tumbler-Ridge-Secondary-School-in-British-Columbia-Canada-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493199" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Seven students at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School were shot dead on Tuesday afternoon&comma; with two other people also found dead at a residence in Tumbler Ridge&comma; before the shooter killed herself at the school &&num;8211&semi; Police<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">An emergency alert was issued to Tumbler Ridge residents around 1&period;20pm Tuesday&comma; warning of an active shooter in the area&period;<br>An urgent alarm sounded in the hallways an hour later instructing students and staff to go on lockdown and barricade the doors&period;<br>Tumbler Ridge&comma; a picturesque mountain valley town in the foothills of the Rockies about 736 miles north of Vancouver&period; Population 2&comma;400&period;<br>The school&comma; which with a combined population of 175 students in the high school and elementary school sections&comma; will be closed for the rest of the week&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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