Canada police foil Valentine’s day shooting-spree plot

Canadian police said they had foiled a plot that would have seen an armed duo carry out a shooting spree in the city of Halifax on Valentine’s Day before killing themselves. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia said a 19-year-old man had plotted with a 23-year-old American woman from Geneva, Illinois to open fire somewhere in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday. Two others were also allegedly involved. It was not thought to be terror related.

[They] had access to firearms and it was their intention to go to a public venue in the Halifax region on February 14th with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then themselves.

Statement by the RCMP

Police said the man was found dead in a home Friday morning. The American woman was arrested shortly after — along with a 20-year-old man — without incident at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Police arrested a fourth suspect, a 17-year-old boy from Cole Harbour, at a home later on Friday. Police said they first received word of a “potential significant weapons-related threat” on Thursday morning. Timberlea is a small town on the outskirts of Halifax in the rugged and remote Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. All three suspects were being kept in police custody.

We support our law enforcement agencies who work tirelessly to ensure our communities are safe places to live, work and raise families.

RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brian Brennan

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