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Canadian police foil duo's plan for deadly Valentine's Day shooting spree

It is not thought to be terror related.

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CANADIAN POLICE SAY they have foiled a plot that would have seen an armed duo carry out a shooting spree in the city of Halifax on Valentine’s Day before killing themselves.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia said a 19-year-old man from the rural town of Timberlea had plotted with a 23-year-old woman from the US city of Geneva, Illinois to open fire somewhere in Halifax on Saturday. Two others were also allegedly involved.

It was not thought to be terror related.

Public venue

They “had access to firearms and it was their intention to go to a public venue in the Halifax region on February 14th with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then themselves,” the RCMP said in a statement.

Police said the Timberlea man was found dead in a home early Friday morning.

The American woman was arrested shortly after — along with a 20-year-old man — without incident at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

Police arrested a fourth suspect, a 17-year-old boy from Cole Harbour, at a home later on Friday.

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“It’s a group of individuals that were of the same… mind to commit a heinous event and then take their own lives,” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brian Brennan told a news conference.

Brennan told CTV News that the plot was not considered to be related to terrorism.

“We believe we have apprehended all known individuals in this matter and eliminated the threat,” the RCMP statement read.

We are not seeking any further suspects at this time in relation to this investigation.

Police said they first received word of a “potential significant weapons-related threat” on Thursday morning.

“We became aware, we acted quickly and intercepted a threat,” the RCMP said.

The region’s Serious Incident Response Team was investigating the death of the Timberlea man.

Timberlea

Timberlea is a small town on the outskirts of Halifax in the rugged and remote Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

Steven Blaney, the minister for public safety, praised the police operation to thwart the attack.

“These arrests are a great example of the fine work they do on a daily basis to help keep Canadians safe,” he said in remarks reported by the CBC.

We support our law enforcement agencies who work tirelessly to ensure our communities are safe places to live, work and raise families.

The CBC also reported that police had warned one venue of the threat.

All three suspects were being kept in police custody.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:07 AM

    RTE have their own in house version with tubbs and co collecting the jackpot every week.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:05 AM

    I enjoy an odd bet every now and then. The excitement you get when your horse is close to winning is fun.

    It’s completely different with the Lotto. I never watch the draws. Buying that ticket gives you permission to daydream and imagine what you would do with a life changing amount of money.

    I do understand that gambling can be very addictive. I don’t think people are going to lose their homes or jobs because of the lotto.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:18 AM

    Lotto is just another Tax on the lowest income people in society.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:30 AM

    @Father Spodo Komodo: Form of bingo for people wow

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:37 AM

    @Father Spodo Komodo:
    Of course they are forced, by huge spending on brainwashing advertising, and reducing the lower orders to a state of desperation through austerity cuts and unemployment, forcing people to smoke,abuse alcohol, eat bad cheap food, in their anxiety and desperation, and play lotto and other forms of gambling as a hoped for cure for,or just a much needed distration from, their hopeless situation. That,s if suicide doesn’t get them first. Age old tactics that the ruling classes have used for Millenia

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 10:17 AM

    @Con Murphy: Ugh – imagine having to listen to you drone on in a pub or something. “Enda, Merkle, Rabble Rabble, Bleedin’ Water Charges, Rabble….”

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:30 AM

    Winning Streak with Mike Murphy will always be the best Wining Streak.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 8:21 AM

    Stopped doing it when it went over 2 euro a line ,can’t understand why there is inflation in winning a million,oops I forget what make the corporate society of Ireland work “pure greed”.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 8:23 AM

    @Gerard Heery: don ferret reducing your chances of winning at the same time

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 8:44 AM

    @ed w: they have ferrets runing the lotto now lol

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:40 AM

    Not sure why lotto given free advertising. It’s gambling and every time a winner or whatever it’s all over the news and more free advertising.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 7:19 AM

    Why is the shot in black and white??
    Are we budgeting on the production here or is it an attempt to age us all??

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 7:41 AM

    @Paul Maher: Sadly I think they were trying to make it look older then it really is by using a black and white photo.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 8:04 AM

    @Paul Maher: probably taken by a newspaper photographer- they worked with b&w film as it’s much quicker/easier to develop than colour. Even though this wasn’t a fast-moving story, b&w would still be the chosen format.

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 6:56 AM

    Extra tax for people bad at maths!

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    Aug 2nd 2017, 10:59 PM

    How much does the Canadian pensioners get from it… I wonder?

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