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B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma is expected to hold a news conference in Vancouver Tuesday about the government’s legal options around the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
On Feb. 10, a shooter killed her mother and half-brother, then went to the local secondary school and killed five children, aged 12 and 13, and an educator.
The 18-year-old shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.
Tumbler Ridge is a town of about 2,400 people set in the foothills of the Rockies near B.C.’s border with Alberta.
CBC News will carry the attorney general’s news conference, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. PT., live on this page.