When officers entered the school on Tuesday afternoon, they found six victims deceased, RCMP confirmed.
An individual believed to be the shooter was also found deceased with what appears to be a self‑inflicted injury.
Two victims have been airlifted to the hospital with serious or life‑threatening injuries. A third victim died while being transported to hospital. Approximately 25 others are being assessed and triaged at the local medical centre for non‑life‑threatening injuries.
The active shooter alert was lifted at 5:46 p.m. PT.
There are no indications this was an illegal weapon. It appears the suspect had a PAL and the firearms were legit. They were taken away by the police at one point because of domestic violence concerns, then an adult in the residence asked for them to be returned and they were.
Whoever made that decision to return the firearms is responsible for killing those kids.
PAL was expired though.
The point from my original post was the guns weren’t obtained illegally. If they belonged to another resident in the house and the suspect just had access to them that’s a different issue regarding safe storage.