>The teenage suspect in a mass shooting in rural British Columbia had been the subject of a number of police visits in recent years because of mental health issues, authorities say.
>Jesse Van Rootselaar had previously been apprehended and assessed under the Mental Health Act, and used to have a firearms licence.
>On Wednesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said there was a history of visiting Van Rootselaar's family home in the past several years because of the suspect's mental health struggles.
>"On different occasions the suspect was apprehended for assessment and follow up," said RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald.
>British Columbia Premier David Eby told a news conference outside the Tumbler Ridge town hall late on Wednesday evening they were in contact with the public healthcare system officials to "understand what interactions may have taken place".
>Van Rootselaar was born a biological male, but identified as a female, authorities said.
>Tumbler Ridge has about 2,400 residents, and its secondary school, where the shooting unfolded, has 160 students. Police said Van Rootselaar had dropped out of school four years ago.
>The RCMP also said there had been guns in the suspect's home, which had been seized by police about two years ago.
>Someone in the family, whom police did not name, later successfully petitioned to get the firearms back.
>In a July 2024 Instagram post, the suspect's mother described herself as a "conservative leaning libertarian" and spoke out in support of protecting "trans kids".
>"Do you have any idea how many kids are killing themselves over this kind of hate?" she wrote.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz2x4yzqgo
Update: The Troon shooter had a mental health hold. This usually indicates psychosis, which is connected to schizo. Cops dropped the gun seizure
The Always Defamatory League (yes, I know, ADL...) also is claiming based on digital footprint the shooter was based:
>On X, an account believed to belong to the shooter shared content glorifying previous mass killers, including the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooter and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooter. The Tumbler Ridge shooter's X profile photo also featured an image of the Christchurch shooter superimposed over a Sonnenrad, a neo-Nazi symbol, and a transgender pride flag.
>The account regularly shared racist and antisemitic content. In a tweet posted just two days before the attack, the alleged Tumbler Ridge shooter wrote, "I need to hate jews because the zionists want me to hate jews. This benefits them, somehow." The account also promoted neo-Nazi Harold Covington and the Northwest Territorial Imperative, an idea originally promoted by Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler in the 1970s that white people should move to the Pacific Northwest in order eventually to form a white-only nation there.
I've got my doubts about that