A family member of a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, this week said the student was trying to save her classmates at the time.The student, Maya Gebala, was one of more than 25 people wounded in Tuesday’s shooting and airlifted to BC Children’s Hospital. The girl is “in extreme critical condition” and “had surgery yesterday to try and repair” a “brain bleed,” her aunt, Krysta Hunt, told Global News Canada Wednesday.“She has a bullet in her head, above her left eye and she has a bullet in her neck,” Hunt said. “They are not sure if the bullet in her neck went all the way through or not, or if it’s still internal, but they’re leaving it for now to focus on her head.”Maya Gebala was shot in the head protecting other classmates at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada.GoFundMePolice identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the suspected shooter who killed five students and one teacher at the school after killing her 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at a nearby home, BBC reported. She was found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.According to CNN, police recovered a long gun and a modified handgun at the scene. However, neither was registered to Van Rootselaar, whose license expired in 2024. Authorities have not released a motive for the shootings, but police say they were called to Van Rootselaar’s family home on multiple occasions over the past several years, according to the BBC.Hunt told Global News her niece “tried to lock the door of the library from the shooter to save the other kids and then she tried to lock it and then ran and hid under a table,” where she was shot. The victim’s aunt said Maya’s friend saw her finger move and carried her out of the school to get help before being airlifted.“What started as a normal day has now tapered into hours and minutes,” Maya’s mother wrote on a GoFundMe page. “What felt like a shred of hope, feels as fragile as life itself, but we just cant give up hope.. so we wait. Our amazing team believes she can’t make possibly make it... but we wait, and we keep hoping.”Canadian hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser is asking followers to support Maya, who she called a “little hockey player from Tumbler Ridge,” and her family.Gebala’s mother gave GoFundMe followers an update Thursday on the child’s condition, writing that her daughter had “moved!!” in the hospital. “Keep up the positive vibes,” she wrote. Close