Canada is struggling to breathe after the nightmare that tore through a small northern town — and the newest revelations are even more chilling than first believed.
Twelve-year-old Maya Edmonds remains in critical condition in a Vancouver ICU, bullet fragments still lodged in her brain. Doctors say every hour is a fight.
But investigators now say her courage in the final moments may have saved lives.
“She tried to lock the door”
Police confirm Maya was shot while attempting to barricade her classroom at Tumbler Ridge Secondary, trying to shield her friends as gunfire echoed through the halls.
“She didn’t run,” one official said quietly. “She acted.”
Her classmates escaped. She did not.
The attacker’s past finally revealed
Authorities have identified the gunman as Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old whose disturbing online habits are now under forensic review.
Sources close to the investigation say the teenager was obsessed with what police call “twisted murder videos” — graphic content that glorified violence. Detectives believe the rampage began inside his own home before moving to the school.
“This wasn’t spontaneous,” a senior officer said. “There was preparation. There was fixation.”
“Sinister” — a mother’s warning that haunts the case
One of the most unsettling details now emerging: relatives allegedly described the suspect as “sinister” long before the attack.
Friends of the family claim there were warning signs — mood swings, violent fantasies, and growing isolation — but nothing that predicted the scale of what would come.
Now, those missed signals are being re-examined with brutal clarity.
A town frozen in shock
In Tumbler Ridge, school bells are silent. Lockers remain closed. Candles line the fence outside the campus.
Parents hold their children longer. Teachers replay the timeline in their minds.
“She was just a kid trying to help,” one resident said of Maya. “And he was a kid who decided to destroy.”
The questions burning across Canada
As Maya fights for her life, the nation is left with impossible questions:
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How did a teenager slip so far into violent obsession?
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Why weren’t the warning signs stopped sooner?
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Could this tragedy have been prevented?
Investigators are now analyzing digital history, family dynamics, and the precise path the attacker took through the school.
“This case isn’t just about what happened,” one official said. “It’s about how it was allowed to happen.”
Hero and monster — born in the same moment
In one hallway, fear was spreading.
In one classroom, a girl tried to stop it.
Maya Edmonds didn’t carry a weapon.
She carried instinct, loyalty, and courage.
Jesse Van Rootselaar carried something else entirely.
And as Canada waits for doctors’ updates and police answers, the contrast is unbearable:
A child who tried to save others…
And another child who chose to destroy.
One is now fighting for life.
The other has become a name history will never forget.
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