Police identify suspect in high school shooting in Canada as 18-year-old

Police block an area near Tumbler Ridge Secondary School (Jesse Boily /The Canadian Press via AP)

Police have identified the suspect in a school shooting in Canada as an 18-year-old who had prior mental health calls to her home and who was found dead following the attack that killed nine people in a remote part of British Columbia.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Jesse Van Rootselaar had a history of mental health contact with police, and that the suspect’s mother and stepbrother were also found dead in a home near the school.