Family sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge

Published on March 10, 2026 at 9:06 AM

The family the girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has launched a civil court lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.

The mother and father of Maya Gebala allege in the B.C. Supreme Court legal claim that OpenAI had “specific knowledge of the shooter utilizing ChatGPT to plan a mass casualty event like the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.”

Maya’s mother said last week that her daughter’s breathing tube had been removed as doctors check to see whether she can breathe on her own.

A post on the Facebook account belonging to Cia Edmonds, says the removal was a “terrifying experience” and she held her daughter’s hand as the girl winced.

But Edmonds wrote in the post on Friday that her daughter was “doing great” and “looking more like her beautiful self.”

Edmonds and Gebala’s father, David Gebala, have said their daughter was struck in her neck and in the head, just above her left eye, when shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Feb. 10.

-with files from The Canadian Press

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