CP NewsAlert: Family sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

By Canadian Press on March 9, 2026.

VANCOUVER — 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.”

More coming.

The Canadian Press

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