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Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting

Father shares video of daughter's release after prolonged recovery from Tumbler Ridge attack

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Published
David Gebala posted a video of his daughter Maya Gebala to social media on Thursday saying she is being released from hospital nearly nine months after the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. (David Gebala/Facebook)

What this story says

  • Maya Gebala is leaving BC Children's Hospital after 262 days of treatment.
  • She was shot three times in an attack in Tumbler Ridge.
  • Her father, David Gebala, shared a video of her reaction to the news she was going home.

Who covered it

Left 60%(12)Centre 40%(8)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 20 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 21 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

48/100

Craft

60/100

Hype

15/100

21 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 20 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Maya Gebala is being released from BC Children's Hospital after 262 days. She had been hospitalized following a shooting incident in Tumbler Ridge where she sustained three gunshot wounds. Her father, David Gebala, posted a video on social media showing him informing his 13-year-old daughter that she was going home.

Maya Gebala's reaction

In the video shared by David Gebala, Maya Gebala responded to the news of her release by punching the air. The digests from Narcity and Medicine Hat News included this detail, with Narcity adding that Maya's recovery from severe brain injuries in the shootings that left eight victims dead on February 10 has been documented.

What the coverage left out

No right-rated digests mentioned Maya Gebala's release from hospital, the duration of her stay, or the circumstances of her injury.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 1 time, most recently on 29 Oct 2026, 21:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How other outlets pictured it

Which photograph to run is each newsroom’s own choice. The leaning beside a name is that outlet’s published rating, not a claim that the pictures divide along it. Every picture is shown from the outlet’s own server and links to the article it ran in.

Maya Gebala, 13, is shown in this image from Oct. 29, 2026, the day she was being released from hospital. (Credit: Facebook/david.gebala)
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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

12 rated outlets

  • Ten left-rated digests reported that Maya Gebala is leaving BC Children's Hospital after 262 days, having been shot three times in Tumbler Ridge. All ten digests mentioned her father, David Gebala, posting a video of her reaction to going home. The digests from Rocky Mountain Outlook, Coast Reporter, SooToday.com, Midland Today, Thorold Today, Sudbury, ElliotLakeToday.com, thealbertan.com, and BurlingtonToday.com stated that David Gebala told his 13-year-old daughter she was going home. The Toronto Star and Rocky Mountain Outlook digests noted that the incident occurred more than eight months prior. The digests from SooToday.com, Midland Today, Thorold Today, Sudbury, ElliotLakeToday.com, thealbertan.com, and BurlingtonToday.com also mentioned that the video showed Maya responding by punching the air.

Centre

8 rated outlets

  • Seven centre-rated digests reported Maya Gebala's release from BC Children's Hospital after 262 days, following three gunshot wounds sustained in Tumbler Ridge. All seven digests mentioned her father, David Gebala, posting a video of the announcement. Chek News, Battlefords NOW, CFJC Today Kamloops, meadowlakeNOW, Narcity, and Medicine Hat News digests stated that David Gebala told his 13-year-old daughter she was going home. Narcity and Medicine Hat News digests also included that Maya responded by punching the air. Narcity and Medicine Hat News digests noted that the incident occurred more than eight months prior and that Maya's recovery from severe brain injuries in the shootings that left eight victims dead on February 10 has been documented.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting?
Of the 20 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 60% are rated left, 40% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 21. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 20 rated outlets on this story, 60% are rated left, 40% are rated centre, 0% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting biased?
Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting is one event reported by 21 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Maya Gebala leaves hospital after 262 days following shooting?
21 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why is Maya Gebala leaving hospital?
Maya Gebala is being released from BC Children's Hospital after 262 days of hospitalization. She was shot three times in an attack in Tumbler Ridge and has been recovering from her injuries.
How long was Maya Gebala in hospital?
Maya Gebala was in BC Children's Hospital for 262 days, which is more than eight months. Her release marks the end of this extended period of care following the shooting.
What happened in Tumbler Ridge?
In Tumbler Ridge, an attack occurred where Maya Gebala was shot three times. The digests mention that eight victims died in the shootings on February 10, and that Maya sustained severe brain injuries.

Read it at the source

21 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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Centre

8

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

1

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