Canadian police have said that the perpetrator of a mass shooting this week who killed eight people was “hunting” but had no specific targets.
Canada was rocked on Tuesday when an 18-year-old transgender woman named Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother at their home in Tumbler Ridge before heading to the town’s high school, where she shot dead six more people. She later took her own life.
“There was no specific targeting of any individuals. This suspect was, for lack of a better term, hunting.
“They were prepared and engaging anybody and everybody they could come into contact with,” said British Columbia Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)…