‘She was the last person to deserve this’: Father recalls final moments with 12-year-old LGBTQ supporter daughter killed by trans in Canada shooting

A 12-year-old girl who supported the LGBTQ community was among eight people shot and killed by a transgender in the Canadian Rockies town of Tumbler Ridge.

The father of one of the shooting victims described the last time he saw his daughter before she was killed. He said that he dropped his daughter and son off at school as usual in the morning.





"I let her off. I let her go to school with her brother Ethan in the morning, and just. I had soaked in that moment watching them walk in the door together for whatever reason, and I didn't know it would be the last time they'd go to school together."

When asked how he came to know about incident, the father said, "Ethan had called about five after three after he had text messaged saying, I love you. And he called and said that he was in a utility room and that he was hiding and he didn't know where Kylie was."

He also said that the police didn't informed him about the death of his wife, it was the "hero" who did CPR on her for 45 minutes. He continued that the "hero" told him nine hours later that his daughter had passed away.



"Beautiful soul. She's a light in our family. She loved art and anime. She wanted to go to school in Toronto, and she just loved her so much. She was thriving in high school. She never hurt her soul. She was a supporter, LGBTQ supporter," the father said while talking about his daughter.

"She was the last person who ever deserved this. Grade seven. Grade seven? Yeah. 12 years old. She was three months away from her 13th birthday," he added.