9 Killed in shootings at school and home in Canada

A shooter killed nine people and injured 25 on Tuesday at a high school and a residence in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community in British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

A person believed to be the shooter was also found dead in the school from what appeared to be a self-inflicted injury, said Superintendent Ken Floyd, North District commander of the British Columbia Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Responding to a call at about 1:20 p.m. local time, officers found six people dead in the high school, police said, and another person died while being transported to a hospital. Two other people were found dead in a local residence, which police believed to be connected to the school shooting.

Officers were searching additional homes and properties in the area for other people who may be injured or connected to the shootings, police said in a statement.

Floyd said in a news briefing that the police had not yet determined the shooter’s motive. He declined to identify the shooter or provide any age. He confirmed that the shooter was the same person as the suspect mentioned in a police alert to the community earlier in the day. That alert described the suspect as a “female in a dress with brown hair.”

Authorities reported that the other injuries were not deemed life-threatening. Police were still reaching out to the victims’ families, Premier David Eby of British Columbia said in a news briefing Tuesday. He stated that the threat to the community had been resolved.

A shelter-in-place order was issued shortly after the police received the first report of an active shooter. The order was dropped at 5:45 p.m., according to the police.

Nina Krieger, the public safety minister of British Columbia, said in a news briefing that the incident was “one of the worst mass shootings in our province’s and country’s history.”

Both Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where the shooting occurred, and Tumbler Ridge Elementary School will be closed for the rest of the week, the school district said Tuesday night. Northern Lights College, which operates a campus at the secondary school, also said it would be closed for the week.

Here’s what else to know:

— Remote community: Tumbler Ridge, where about 2,400 people live, was originally established as a coal-mining town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, according to the town’s website.

— 2025 attack: Mass homicides are rare in Canada, but the attack on Tuesday was the second in British Columbia in under a year. In April 2025, 11 people were killed in Vancouver when a man drove his SUV into a crowd celebrating a Filipino heritage festival.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.