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Canadian police foil mass shooting plot by 'group of murderous misfits'
Group planned to open fire in public before turning guns on themselves
A 19-year-old man found dead and three others arrested at airport
Nova Scotia home where man was found dead
A duplex home where a 19-year-old man was found dead is shown in Timberlea, Nova Scotia, on Friday night. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
Lauren Gambino in New York
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Saturday 14 February 2015 16.29 GMT
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After Canadian police said they had foiled a plot by “a group of murderous misfits” who allegedly planned to carry out a mass shooting attack on Valentine’s Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada’s justice minister Peter MacKay said on Saturday that all members of the group were in custody or dead.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Friday that a 19-year-old man from Timberlea, Nova Scotia, and a 23-year-old woman from Geneva, Illinois, had planned to go to a public venue in Halifax and open fire, with the goal of killing as many people as possible before turning the guns on themselves.
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“This appeared to be a group of murderous misfits that were coming here, or were living here, and prepared to wreak havoc and mayhem on our community,” MacKay said on Saturday. “It would have been devastating. Mass casualties were a real possibility.”
On Friday, police found the man dead at his home in Timberlea, about 20 minutes outside Halifax. The American suspect was arrested at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, having traveled from Chicago.
Police arrested two other men from Nova Scotia in connection with the incident: a 20-year-old who was at the airport to meet the American woman and a 17-year-old. Investigators are still trying to determine their roles in the planned shooting.
No charges had been laid against the suspects as of Saturday morning, CBC news reported.
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Citing a senior police official, the Associated Press reported on Saturday that the two suspects were planning to go to an area mall and kill as many people as they could before committing suicide. The official said police acted on information provided by a member of the public on the Crime Stoppers tip line.
At a press conference on Friday, RCMP officials said they received a tip the day before. Despite giving few details, police were careful to distinguish the planned shooting from a “terrorist” attack, their characterization of the attack that paralysed Canada in October when a troubled man went on a shooting rampage in parliament.
“I wouldn’t characterize it as a terrorist event,” said Nova Scotia RCMP commanding officer Brian Brennan. “I would classify it as a group of individuals that had some beliefs and were willing to carry out violent acts against citizens. But there’s nothing in the investigation to classify it as a terrorist act.”
Brennan told reporters the motive for the planned attack did not appear to be “culture-based”, but did not elaborate on a possible motive.
In Illinois, the Geneva police department said it was contacted by the Halifax regional police department about a “potential significant weapons-related threat” posed by the 23-year-old woman. In a statement, the department said they had not had prior contact with the woman.
Group planned to open fire in public before turning guns on themselves
A 19-year-old man found dead and three others arrested at airport
Nova Scotia home where man was found dead
A duplex home where a 19-year-old man was found dead is shown in Timberlea, Nova Scotia, on Friday night. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
Lauren Gambino in New York
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Saturday 14 February 2015 16.29 GMT
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After Canadian police said they had foiled a plot by “a group of murderous misfits” who allegedly planned to carry out a mass shooting attack on Valentine’s Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada’s justice minister Peter MacKay said on Saturday that all members of the group were in custody or dead.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Friday that a 19-year-old man from Timberlea, Nova Scotia, and a 23-year-old woman from Geneva, Illinois, had planned to go to a public venue in Halifax and open fire, with the goal of killing as many people as possible before turning the guns on themselves.
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“This appeared to be a group of murderous misfits that were coming here, or were living here, and prepared to wreak havoc and mayhem on our community,” MacKay said on Saturday. “It would have been devastating. Mass casualties were a real possibility.”
On Friday, police found the man dead at his home in Timberlea, about 20 minutes outside Halifax. The American suspect was arrested at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, having traveled from Chicago.
Police arrested two other men from Nova Scotia in connection with the incident: a 20-year-old who was at the airport to meet the American woman and a 17-year-old. Investigators are still trying to determine their roles in the planned shooting.
No charges had been laid against the suspects as of Saturday morning, CBC news reported.
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Citing a senior police official, the Associated Press reported on Saturday that the two suspects were planning to go to an area mall and kill as many people as they could before committing suicide. The official said police acted on information provided by a member of the public on the Crime Stoppers tip line.
At a press conference on Friday, RCMP officials said they received a tip the day before. Despite giving few details, police were careful to distinguish the planned shooting from a “terrorist” attack, their characterization of the attack that paralysed Canada in October when a troubled man went on a shooting rampage in parliament.
“I wouldn’t characterize it as a terrorist event,” said Nova Scotia RCMP commanding officer Brian Brennan. “I would classify it as a group of individuals that had some beliefs and were willing to carry out violent acts against citizens. But there’s nothing in the investigation to classify it as a terrorist act.”
Brennan told reporters the motive for the planned attack did not appear to be “culture-based”, but did not elaborate on a possible motive.
In Illinois, the Geneva police department said it was contacted by the Halifax regional police department about a “potential significant weapons-related threat” posed by the 23-year-old woman. In a statement, the department said they had not had prior contact with the woman.
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