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The Halifax mass shooting plot was an event which chiefly occurred between February 12, 2015, to February 14, 2015. On February 12, 2015, a tip came into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that three youths were planning to commit a mass killing at the Halifax Shopping Centre. Two of the suspects, Randall Steven Shepherd, 20, of Timberlea, and Lindsay Kanittha Souvannarath, 23, from Geneva, Illinois, had access to firearms and presented a threat. Around 2AM on February 13, upon arrival to a duplex house in Timberlea, a small suburb outside of Halifax, they found the third suspect, 19-year-old James Gamble, deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At the same time, the police apprehended Souvannarath who was arriving into Canada along with Shepherd, who was meeting her. A 17-year-old from Cole Harbour was arrested at 11:00 am, but was shortly thereafter released from custody due to determination that he had no idea of, nor involvement in the plot. The police learned that it was the trio's intention to go into a public venue and open fire, attempting to kill as many people as possible, before turning the guns on themselves on February 14 (Valentine's Day). The venue was later disclosed as the Halifax Shopping Centre on Mumford Road, which is Atlantic Canada's largest shopping mall. Shepherd and Souvannarath face charges of conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit arson, conspiracy to use weapons for a dangerous purpose, and unlawfully conveying threats through social media. ==Plotting== The trio met on the website Tumblr, where they shared an obsession with death, true crime, heavy metal music, and Nazi imagery. Gamble's blog included imagery of Nazis and the Columbine High School massacre, along with pictures of guns from World War II, and Shepherd's contained death metal audio tracks and gore, whereas on Souvannarath's blog, headlined with, "School Shooter Chic; violence is the aesthetic," she made many allusions to events of mass murder and mayhem in the month of February as early as several months beforehand, interspersed with anti-Semitic comments in juxtaposition with posts of photosets of Japanese fashion on her pastel-pink background. On February 5, 2015, Gamble reblogged a photo Souvannarath posted on Tumblr saying "Valentine's Day, it's going down", hinting to the would-be shooting. In the early hours of February 13, while police surrounded Gamble's home and found him already dead by way of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Souvannarath and Shepherd were apprehended at Halifax Airport shortly after 2AM and taken into custody. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Halifax mass shooting plot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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