Canadian authorities are piecing together the digital footprint of the teenager who murdered family and classmates in a rare and devastating mass shooting in British Columbia on 10 February 2026.
Thekillings, one of the deadliest school shootings in Canadian history, took place in the remote mining town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, where the suspect, identified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officials as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, allegedly shot and killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at a residence before entering Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and opening fire on students and staff.
In the immediate aftermath, internet researchers and forum users combed through Van Rootselaar's fragmented online presence, revealing a Roblox account, since removed, that contained a game titled Remember, which featured an RBLX modelled on a shopping mall massacre scenario.
Roblox, a user-generated content platform with more than 85 million daily active users, allows members to create and share their own interactive 'experiences' online. Like all user-created content platforms, it depends on community moderation and automated filters to enforce terms of use.
Within hours of the shooting,users on internet forumsincluding Kiwi Farms and Reddit reported finding an active Roblox account whose username, jesseboy347, matched the shooter's known online pseudonym tied to other social profiles, including a YouTube channel alleged to belong to Van Rootselaar.
A Roblox account belonging to the Canadian mass shooter was discovered by the internet forum Kiwi Farms last night. One of the games created by the shooter is a mall shooting simulator, modeled after a real mall in Canada, where the player can fire into a crowd of terrified…pic.twitter.com/9W2xlXIguI
One thread onReddit's r/masskillerssubreddit discussed the account and its creations, noting that the mall firing experience appeared to depict NPCs in a shopping mall with spawn points for weapons and little customised AI behaviour, implying that its purpose was a crude attempt to simulate a mass shooting scenario.
ARoblox system error pagenow appears when attempting to access the profile or the game, indicating the account and its creations have been removed from public indexing on the platform.
While the platform has many user-made shooter-style games, none of the mainstream listings resembles a mall massacre as described by users reviewing the deleted content. OfficialRoblox first-person shooter genre pagesprimarily highlight competitive online shooter experiences rather thanreal-life violence scenarios.
The discovery follows ongoing scrutiny of Roblox's content moderation practices. Public documentation notes a long-standing debate over child safety and violent or sexualised content, even as the platform has introduced stricter age-verification systems in early 2026 in response to lawsuits and criticism of its moderation model.
Source: International Business Times UK
