VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The families of victims of a shooting in a remote Canadian Rockies town grappled with unrelenting grief Thursday as details emerged about those killed in the country's deadliest mass shooting in years.

The RCMP's ability to recruit new Mounties was, not all that long ago, seen as a crisis. But new numbers suggest the national police force is starting to turn that around.

Canadian authorities have identified the shooter who killed eight people — mostly children — at a school in British Columbia on Tuesday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have named Jesse Van Rootselaar,