Canada Revises School Shooting Death Toll to 9, 1 Critical with Neck Wound

Illustration of a shooting. (Maxim Hopman-Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The Prime Minister of British Columbia, Canada, David Eby revealed that the death toll in the Tumbler Ridge High School mass shooting was nine people.

At a press conference outside the Tumbler Ridge City Hall on Wednesday night local time, quoted by AFP, Eby explained that initially the number of shooting victims did not include the perpetrator who committed suicide, reported nine people, before it was finally revised to eight.

At the time of the incident, Eby said, officers who entered the high school in the city found six people dead, namely a 39-year-old female teacher and five students consisting of three girls aged 12 and two boys, aged 13 and 12.

Eby added that one of the victims of the shooter's shooting was still in critical condition.

The victim, 12-year-old Maya Gebala, was still in critical condition Wednesday night local time. Her aunt, Krystal Hunt, told CBC, the victim was fighting for her life after being shot in the head and neck.

Gebala "tried to lock the library door from the shooter to save other children," before being injured, Hunt said.

According to the federal Public Security Minister, Gary Anandasangaree, the police responded "within two minutes of the call."

The deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Police in British Columbia, Dwayne McDonald, the shooter armed with a long-barreled rifle and a pistol, was found dead of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" after the massacre on Tuesday, February 10.

According to police records, the perpetrator killed his mother and his stepbrother before shooting dead six other people at Tumbler Ridge High School and decided to commit suicide.