The RCMP have provided few details so far about the firearms used in the shooting and how the shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, acquired them.

The shooter also died from a self-inflicted injury inside the school. Two other victims were found dead inside a home nearby. For the latest on the Tumbler Ridge shooting, follow

It was almost six years ago that Tammy Oliver-McCurdie lost her younger sister, brother-in-law and 17-year-old niece in Nova Scotia, all of them victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Canadian history.

Girls Kylie Smith, Zoey Benoit, Ticaria Lampert — all age 12 — and boys Abel Mwansa Jr., also 12, and Ezekiel Schofield, 13, were killed Tuesday afternoon in Tumbler Ridge Secondary School by 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar.

Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her own mother and stepbrother before attacking Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday

The families of the victims of the mass shooting in a remote Canadian town are grappling with unrelenting grief as details emerge about those killed in the country’s deadliest mass shooting in years.

Tumbler Ridge sits at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, and is surrounded by expansive mountain ranges and a geological park.

TUMBLER RIDGE - Mounties in the small community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., describe arriving to a chaotic scene at the local high school.