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As John alluded to, someone whom police initially identified as a gun person in a dress appears to have killed at least eight people across two locations and wounded dozens of others.

That person has now been identified as an 18-year-old male who identified as a female and who had a history of mental illness.

Two people were found dead inside a local home who have since been identified as the shooter's mother and 11-year-old brother.

But most of the carnage took place at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, which is in a remote area of northeast British Columbia.

There, at least six others were found dead, including the suspect.

One more person died while they were being taken to a hospital.

Students at the school said they were forced to barricade themselves in classrooms for roughly two to two and a half hours before they were evacuated by police.

The police have not released any information about the motive, but they have said they believe he acted alone.

He reportedly dropped out of Tumbler Ridge four years ago, though there's no evidence so far that he targeted specific individuals at the school.

Police were called to the home on multiple occasions for mental health concerns,

including one occasion where guns were seized from the home two years ago, but were later returned when the lawful owner of the guns petitioned for their return.

It's not clear who that owner is and whether those guns were used in this attack.

Also, as we noted, this individual does identify as transgender and has been identifying as female for about five years, according to his Facebook page.

In fact, when the news first broke, many outlets were reporting that the shooter was female.

Female shooters are statistically extremely rare, though, that has been changing in recent years, and it appears to be in connection to the transgender movement.

We talked to Penny Nance, the CEO of Concerned Women for America about these trends.

And it's worth noting that this is part of a pattern.

Nance mentioned Nashville, but we also saw the non-binary shooter in Colorado, as well as the trans-identifying shooter at a Minneapolis Catholic school last year.

Nance also said that psychotropic drug use in general could factor into this as well.

Well, so far what we've seen is a nation in mourning.