Halifax mass shooting plot
| Halifax mass shooting plot | |
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| Location | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Date | Saturday, February 14, 2015 |
| Target | Halifax Shopping Centre |
Attack type | Planned shooting, murder-suicide |
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| Deaths | James Gamble (suicide) |
| Injured | none |
| Perpetrators | Lindsay Kanittha Souvannarath Randall Shepherd James Gamble |
| Motive | White Supremacy To replicate 1999 Columbine school shooting (failed) To commit a mass murder-suicide (failed) |
The Halifax mass shooting plot took place between February 12 and February 14, 2015. Police were alerted to three people, identified as Lindsay Souvannarath, Randall Shepherd, and James Gamble, who were reportedly conspiring to commit a mass killing at the Halifax Shopping Centre. Souvannarath and Shepherd were arrested and convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, while Gamble was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound soon after learning of the impending police investigation.