Posted on 02/15/2015 6:56:30 AM PST by nuconvert
Canadian police say they have foiled a plot to carry out a mass shooting in the Halifax area on Saturday.
Three suspects were arrested and a fourth reportedly shot himself dead after police surrounded his home.
At least two suspects had intended "to go to a public venue... with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then themselves", police said.
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Brian Brennan, commanding officer of the Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the plot had involved a 19-year-old man from the Halifax suburb of Timberlea and a 23-year-old woman from the US state of Illinois.
When police went to arrest the 19-year-old man he killed himself, a senior police official told AP news agency.
A 20-year-old Canadian man was arrested along with the woman at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. The fourth suspect, a 17-year-old Canadian boy, was arrested at a house
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From the article:
“Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, a 23–year–old from Geneva, Ill., and Randall Steven Shepherd, 20, of Halifax have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.”
Not Arabs. Moslem converts? or just crazies?
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