Talk:2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting: Difference between revisions

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There appears to be a discrepancy between the times recorded, most likely due to Tumbler Ridge using Mountain Standard Time while most of the rest of British Columbia uses Pacific Standard Time (a one hour difference). For example, the current text used in the page is “The police emergency alert was cancelled at 5:45 p.m.” This matches the time given by the RCMP news release,^[1] but does not match the times posted by School District 59 and the District of Tumbler Ridge.^[2] The time difference happens to be one hour. Problem solved, right? The RCMP must have been using PST in their news release. Unfortunately, it’s not this simple. Assuming that the RCMP news release was in PST, that means the RCMP received a report of an active shooter at the school around 2:20 p.m. However, the article also says “An emergency alert was released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at around 2:15 p.m., asking residents to shelter in place due to the active shooter situation.” It would be impossible for an emergency alert to be issued 5 minutes before the first reports. Either this time is also using PST, or something went wrong when converting times. Maybe Alertable could help but it appears today’s alerts have not been archived yet so it only shows cancelled alerts. However, if you see the time the civil emergency was cancelled, it says 6:08 p.m. (PST) or 7:08 p.m. (MST). While it would make sense if it was delayed 23 minutes, (RCMP and PST time or SD59 and MST time), there’s no evidence that the cancellation couldn’t have been delayed 1 hour and 23 minutes. While this is more unlikely, there are very much some unexplained discrepancies. If anyone could help explain this or try and figure it out, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DRWiki1102 (talk) 04:40, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Basic information to add to this article: the specific types of weapons that were used. ~2026-90336-1 (talk) 05:43, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A majority of the information related to the shooting is being withheld as it’s extremely recent; the perpetrator’s name hasn’t even been released yet. Yessyesss (talk) 06:06, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Identification of alleged shooter published so far in [1]. Not sure how reliable. —Túrelio (talk) 08:22, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]