Shootings at school and home in British Columbia, Canada, leave 10 dead
including suspect
[February 11, 2026]
By JIM MORRIS and ROB GILLIES
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A shooting at a school in British
Columbia left seven people dead, while two more were found dead at a
nearby home, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. A woman who police
believe to be the shooter also was killed.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said more than 25 people are injured,
including two who were airlifted to hospital with life-threatening
injuries, after the shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
School shootings are rare in Canada.
The town of Tumbler Ridge in the Canadian Rockies is more than 1,000
kilometers (600 miles) north of Vancouver, near the border with Alberta.
The provincial government website lists Tumbler Ridge Secondary School
as having 175 students from Grades 7 to 12.
British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters that police officers
reached the school within two minutes.
A video showed students walking out of the school with their hands
raised as police vehicles surrounded the building and a helicopter
circled overhead.
Police found six people dead, a statement said. A suspect appeared to
have died of a “self-inflicted injury.” An eighth person died while
being transported to a hospital, and two more were found dead at a home
the authorities believe was connected to the attack.
RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd told reporters that investigators had
identified a female suspect but would not release a name, and that the
shooter's motive remained unclear. He added that police are still
investigating how the victims are connected to the shooter.
Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka said the whole community is
grieving.
“I broke down,” he said, saying it was “devastating” to learn how many
had died in the community of 2,700, which he called a “big family.”
“I have lived here for 18 years,” Krakowka said “I probably know every
one of the victims.”
The Rev. George Rowe of the Tumbler Ridge Fellowship Baptist Church went
to the recreation center where the victims' families were awaiting more
information.
“It was not a pretty sight. Families are still waiting to hear if it’s
their child that’s deceased and because of protocol and procedure the
investigating team is very careful in releasing names,” Rowe said. “The
big thing tonight was my having to walk away and the families still
waiting to find out. It is so difficult. Other pastors and counselors
are there so they are not alone.”
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This grab from video shows students exiting the Tumbler Ridge school
after deadly shootings, in British Columbia, Canada, Tuesday Feb.
10, 2026. (Jordon Kosik via AP)
Rowe once taught at the high school and his three children graduated
from there.
“To walk through the corridors of that school will never be the same
again,” he said.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a social media post that
he was devastated by the shooting in Tumbler Ridge.
“I join Canadians in grieving with those whose lives have been
changed irreversibly today, and in gratitude for the courage and
selflessness of the first responders who risked their lives to
protect their fellow citizens,” he wrote.
Carney’s office said he is suspending a planned trip to Halifax,
Nova Scotia and Munich, Germany. He was set to announce a
long-awaited defense industrial strategy in Halifax on Wednesday
before heading to Europe for the Munich Security Conference.
Eby, the province's premier, told reporters he had spoken to Carney
after what he called the “unimaginable tragedy.”
“I know it’s 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.”
Canada’s government has responded to previous mass shootings with
gun control measures, including a recently broadened ban on all guns
it considers assault weapons.
Tuesday's shootings were Canada's deadliest rampage since 2020, when
a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 13 people and set fires that left
another nine dead.
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Gillies reported from Toronto.
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