Canadian police have identified the suspect in a deadly school shooting in western Canada, which killed nine people, as an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues who killed her mother and stepbrother before attacking her former school.⁣ ⁣ The killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, who was born male but began identifying as a female six years ago, died by suicide after the shooting on Tuesday police said, but they have not given a motive for one of the worst mass slaughters in Canadian history.⁣ ⁣ On more than one occasion, Van Rootselaar had been apprehended under the provincial Mental Health Act for an assessment, said Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia.⁣ ⁣ #canada #schoolshooting