More charges for teen accused of planning Manitoba school shooting
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RCMP have laid further charges against a 14-year-old boy who’s accused of planning a school shooting at Rivers Collegiate in rural western Manitoba.
Blue Hills RCMP were first alerted in March to an online conversation between the boy and a 15-year-old girl from Nova Scotia in which the boy was discussing and planning to harm students at his school in Rivers.
The Nova Scotian teenager was also allegedly planning a school shooting, police in that province have said.
Both teens were arrested on March 16.
The boy was pulled off a school bus by RCMP and charged with uttering threats that day.
RCMP have since analyzed the boy’s phone and electronic devices and executed two warrants at properties he lived at, where they seized additional electronics and two guns owned by a relative, Mounties said on Thursday.
Crown prosecutors have now authorized additional charges against the teenager, Mounties said on Thursday.
He was re-arrested at the Manitoba Youth Centre in Winnipeg on Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, counselling the offence of murder and two more counts of uttering threats.
The boy is next due in court on June 4.
Interpol and the FBI alerted Manitoba RCMP and the Bridgewater Police Service in Nova Scotia about the “concerning online conversation,” Bridgewater police said in March.
The conversation began in late February.
Police in Nova Scotia charged the girl with conspiracy to commit murder and uttering threats for an alleged plot to attack Parkview Education Centre, a secondary school in Bridgewater.
Detailed handwritten plans, imitation weapons, a roughly made imitation pipe bomb, an assault rifle, and clothing bearing hate symbols were found during a search of her home, police said.
The accused cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
» Winnipeg Free Press