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B.C. RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald says police have prioritized the analysis of firearms seized at both the residence and school following the deadly mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge.
McDonald, who is currently in the northeastern B.C. community, said police are analyzing two firearms – a long gun and a rifle that had been modified – seized from the school and a shotgun seized at the residence. A “number of other firearms” were also seized at the home.
McDonald said investigators have determined that the “main firearm believed to be used in the mass shooting at the school has never been seized by the RCMP and its origin is unknown.”
He added the shotgun is believed to be involved in the fatal shootings of 11-year-old Emmett Jacobs and 39-year-old Jennifer Jacobs, the stepbrother and mother of suspected shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar.
That shotgun has never been previously seized by police.
McDonald said in a Feb. 11 press conference that police have attended the same residence previously “a couple years ago,” when firearms were seized under the Criminal Code. He said Van Rootselaar, 18, had a firearms licence that had expired, but she didn’t have any firearms registered to her.
“I can say that at a later point in time, the lawful owner of those firearms petitioned those firearms be returned and they were,” McDonald said on Feb. 11.
More to come.
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