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Valentine’s Day shooting plot in Halifax foiled by police, with three suspects arrested and a fourth found dead (VIDEO)

Canadian police on Friday arrested three suspects,
and found a fourth dead, for a plot to open fire in a public venue on
Valentine’s Day. Many details about the plan and its suspects are still
being withheld, but police said it was not intended as a terrorist
attack.

BY Jason Silverstein , Denis Slattery

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Friday, February 13, 2015, 11:03 PM

Global News Police said one of the suspects, a 19-year-old man, was found dead in this home in Timberlea, a suburb of Halifax.

A disturbing mass murder plot planned for Valentine’s Day in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, was foiled by Canadian police, authorites said.


Three of the young suspects in the sick scheme, one of whom is
American, were arrested Friday, and another was found dead. Police were
tipped off to the plan earlier in the week.


Police said at least two of the suspects were planning to enter a
mall “with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then
themselves,” CBC reported.


The plan was the brainchild of a 19-year old man from Timberlea, a
Halifax suburb, and a woman, 23, from Geneva, Ill., both of whom had
access to firearms, according to police.


The Timberlea man was found dead from a gunshot wound in his family
house after police surrounded the home and tried talking to him.

Global News Brian
Brennan, commanding officer of the Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, said the foiled plan was not intended as a terrorist attack.

The woman was arrested early Friday morning after getting off a
flight from Chicago to Halifax. She had prewritten several statements
she wanted to be tweeted after her suicide.


Two Halifax men, aged 17 and 20, were also arrested, but their roles in the plan have yet to be determined.


The names of the suspects and information about their connections to each other have not been released.


Brian Brennan, commanding officer of the Nova Scotia Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, said “there’s nothing in the investigation to classify
it as a terrorist attack.” He said it appeared to be a violent way for
the suspects to express “some beliefs” they shared, but he did not
elaborate. Police said the suspects seemed obsessed with death and
collected photos of mass killings.



Brennan said police believe there are no other suspects in the thwarted Valentine’s Day massacre.