The deranged high school dropout who murdered his mother and stepbrother before killing six people at a British Columbia high school has been identified as 18-year-old transgender ex-student Jesse Van Rootselaar.
The horrifying attack, one of the deadliest shootings in Canada’s history, began Tuesday at a residence in the sleepy rural community of Tumbler Ridge, in the western province, and concluded at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School — where authorities say Van Rootselaar died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.