Story thread · 3 reports / 3 sources

ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror

motherjones.com · 11h · first report

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Across 3 sources · syndicated copies counted once

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back […]

The coverage

  1. B.C. Attorney-General, federal AI Minister alarmed by report ChatGPT coached Tumbler Ridge shooter

    theglobeandmail.com · 1h

  2. Report on Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT conversations shocks B.C. attorney general

    thestar.com · 3h

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