Police say the suspect had apprehended for a mental health assessment on more than one occasion. The suspect in a school mass shooting in Canada that killed eight people was an 18-year-old with a history of contact with police over her mental health, police have said. Canadian police identified the suspect on Wednesday as Jesse Van Rootselaar, saying she had died from a self-inflicted wound after carrying out the attack in the remote mountain community of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia province. It was Canada’s deadliest mass killing since 2020, when an armed man killed 13 people in Nova Scotia and set fires that caused nine more deaths. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Van Rootselaar had killed her 39-year-old mother and an 11-year-old stepbrother before the attack on ...