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<\/p>\nWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Maya Gebala was shot three times during the rampage in British Columbia and still cannot speak or see two months after the horror incident<\/p>\n
00:42, 12 Apr 2026Updated 00:47, 12 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Maya Gebala, 12, is \u2018fighting for her life\u2019 after the Canadian school shooting(Image: GoFundMe)<\/p>\n
A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a school shooting <\/a>in Canada remains unable to speak or see two months on from the horror incident.<\/p>\n On February 10 the shooting claimed the lives of five innocent pupils and a teacher, leaving several others fighting for survival. The parents of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, aged 12, along with Bob Zimmer, a Member of the House of Commons<\/a> of Canada, are working to pursue legal action against ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, as the perpetrator had been using the platform to assist in planning the shooting, and the service failed to notify the authorities.<\/p>\n Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, murdered their mother and half-brother before opening fire at the secondary school in a remote north-eastern corner of British Columbia. Van Rootselaar subsequently took their own life. It proved to be one of the deadliest shootings in Canadian history.<\/p>\n Maya’s mother Cia Edmonds shared this photo from hospital as she prayed for a miracle after doctors told her the little girl wouldn’t last the night READ MORE: Parents’ heartbreaking tribute to brave teen who died after leukaemia battle<\/a>READ MORE: ‘I shut my eyes as dogs mauled me, I was scared they’d go for my throat’<\/a><\/p>\n Gebala, who remains hospitalised more than two months on, was shot three times \u2014 one bullet passing through her head above her left eye, another entering her neck, and a third grazing her cheek and part of her ear, according to the lawsuit. She is suffering from catastrophic traumatic brain injury, permanent cognitive and physical disability, right-sided hemiplegia, scarring, and physical deformities, reports the Mirror US<\/a>.<\/p>\n She is reported to have been attempting to shield her classmates by trying to lock the doors to the school library to prevent the shooter from gaining entry. The victim’s family and political figures are demanding answers, questioning whether the tragedy could have been prevented with earlier action. Zimmer told the Sun, “There were so many red flags and so many preventative things that could have been done to prevent the tragedy.” He remains determined to help Gebala’s family and all other victims obtain justice. “We will leave no stone unturned.”<\/p>\n OpenAI suspended an initial ChatGPT account used by the 18 year old suspect in June 2025 due to the deeply concerning nature of their conversations with the chatbot; however, Canadian police were never notified of the ban.<\/p>\n The lawsuit alleges that Van Rootselaar created a ChatGPT account before reaching the age of 18, which requires parental consent, but claims the platform failed to verify their age. The suit further states that Van Rootselaar confided in the chatbot, treating it as a “trusted confidante,” and detailed “various scenarios involving gun violence” to it over multiple days in late spring or early summer of the previous year.<\/p>\n Flowers sit outside of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where a shooting took place(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Twelve OpenAI employees reportedly flagged the conversations as “indicating an imminent risk of serious harm to others” and recommended that Canadian law enforcement be contacted to investigate, yet they never were.<\/p>\n![\"In](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_SDC_MDG_-_21764JPG.jpg\")
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