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Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia are suing OpenAI for negligence and providing a dangerously defective version of ChatGPT to the shooter. The six suits, filed in federal court in San Francisco, allege that OpenAI failed
OpenAI after reviewing messages between ChatGPT and a gunman accused of committing a mass shooting on the Florida State University campus – the first such criminal inquiry into a tech company. Lawyers for the Tumbler Ridge
allegedly stemming from ChatGPT use, including by families of victims killed and injured in a [mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5798896/tumbler-ridge-mass-shooting-chat-gpt-lawsuit), in February, the family of a victim killed
shooting by failing to alert law enforcement of the suspect's ChatGPT activities prior to the attack. One lawsuit naming Gebala and her family alleges that that OpenAI "had actual knowledge" of the shooter
Tumbler Ridge mass shooting earlier this year in Canada have also sued OpenAI, which banned the suspect's ChatGPT account because of problematic usage but [did not alert authorities](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6je7e80r7o). The company