By The Canadian Press

CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney to attend vigil in Tumbler Ridge on Friday

Feb 12, 2026 | 9:51 AM

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Tumbler Ridge, B.C., to attend a vigil on Friday.

The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney was invited by the town’s mayor and that he has invited all other federal party leaders to join him.

Nine people, mostly children, were killed in the mass shooting Tuesday, including Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old shooter who police say took her own life.

Among the dead are five students and a teacher at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, and the shooter’s mother and stepbrother, who were killed in the home they shared with Van Rootselaar.

B.C. Premier David Eby and federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree are currently in the small northern B.C. town of about 2,700 people.

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More than two dozen people were injured in the shooting and Premier Eby said one of them, a 12-year-old girl named Maya Gebala, is “clinging to life in hospital.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2026.

— With files from Brenna Owen in Tumbler Ridge

Canadian Press staff, The Canadian Press