The Premier said that he spoke with Carney and RCMP leadership as he reiterated the number of victims.
Eby noted he wants British Columbians and Canadians to support the people of Tumbler Ridge with love as they deal with the tragedy.
‘This is something that will reverberate for years to come,’ he said.
Eby was stunned for a moment when asked during a news conference alongside Solicitor General Nina Krieger about what he’d say to parents afraid to send their children to school.
‘This is the kind of thing that feels like it happens in other places, and not close to home in a way that this feels like for many British Columbians and Canadians,’ he said.
The education ministry staff is sending trauma-informed counsellors to the area to support kids and their families, Krieger said.
Darian Quist, a grade 12 student at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, told CBC that an alarm sounded in the hallways instructing to close the doors because of an urgent lockdown.
For more than two hours Quist said they ‘got tables and barricaded the doors,‘ until police arrived to escort them out of the building.
The boy then met up with his mother a few hundred yards away.
h/t News Hound