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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Canadian police identify mass shooting suspect

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In our news wrap Wednesday, Canadian police said the mass shooting suspect who killed eight people was an 18-year-old with a history of mental health issues, investigators in Arizona are widening their search for Nancy Guthrie after releasing a man they had detained for questioning and "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek has died after a battle with cancer. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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We start the day's other news in Canada. Police there have identified the suspect in yesterday's

0:05.5

math shooting as an 18-year-old who had a history of mental health issues. Authority said today that

0:11.3

Jesse Van Routzilar is suspected of killing eight people. They also shared she was born

0:16.4

biologically male and began transitioning to female six years ago. Van Routzalar allegedly killed her mother and stepbrother in the remote town of Tumblr Ridge,

0:25.6

British Columbia, plus several others at a local school, most of them students, age 12 and 13.

0:31.6

Eyewitness videos show survivors exiting the Tumblr Ridge Secondary School with their hands raised.

0:36.6

Police say the shooter's motive remains unclear and that she took her own life.

0:41.3

Earlier today, Prime Minister Mark Carney called it a very difficult day for the nation.

0:46.3

Parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumblr Ridge will wake up without someone they love.

0:58.0

The nation borns with you.

1:01.0

Canada stands by you.

1:02.0

We will get through this.

1:03.0

We will learn from this.

1:04.0

But right now it's a time to come together, as Canadians always do.

1:08.0

Carney has said that flags will fly at half staff for seven days to honor the victims.

1:13.8

Such attacks are rare in Canada, which has strict gun control laws.

1:18.2

In Arizona, police are widening their search along multiple roadways for Nancy Guthrie

1:23.7

after releasing a man they detained for questioning.

1:27.2

I mean, I hope they get the suspect because I'm not it. The man had told reporters. Guthrie after releasing a man they detained for questioning.

1:30.0

I mean, I hope they get the suspect because I'm not it.

1:35.1

The man had told reporters he had nothing to do with Guthrie's disappearance, and authorities have not said why they pulled him over and searched his home.

1:38.4

That came just hours after the FBI released surveillance video of a masked figure on

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