Student, parent feeling shocked after Manitoba teen accused of planning school attack
CBC
A student in Rivers, Man., says he is stunned the small community was the site of a high-profile arrest after police say a teenage boy was planning simultaneous school attacks with another youth in Nova Scotia.
"I was surprised. Didn't really expect it. It's a small town. You don't really think of things like this happening in such a nice community," Cole Lelond, a Grade 11 student at Rivers Collegiate, said.
"It definitely worries me, now that I know things like that could happen in such a small community."
Rivers is about 30 kilometres northwest of Brandon.
Police in Bridgewater, N.S., said they were alerted by international police agency Interpol and the FBI about online communications between a 15-year-old girl in that town and a 14-year-old boy in Manitoba. The pair were communicating about their desires to mount attacks at their local schools, Park View Education Centre and Rivers Collegiate, police said.
Investigators believe the teens were planning simultaneous attacks, Bridgewater police said in a news release Wednesday.
Manitoba RCMP said officers were also alerted to the alleged online activity by Interpol on Friday.
Police said the conversations started in mid-February, with the teen from Rivers "actively discussing and planning to harm other students at Rivers Collegiate," a separate Wednesday news release said.
RCMP said the teen was arrested on a school bus during a traffic stop near Provincial Road 250 on Monday morning. Police said he was unarmed and that his phone and electronic devices were seized.
RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Melanie Roussel said arresting the boy on the bus was "the safest way for us to take him into custody, prior to him attending school."
"We had received information prior that he was already on the school bus. We wish we could have arrested him at his residence, but that didn't happen, so arresting him on the school bus was the safest and quickest way to put him in custody," Roussel said.
Police searched two properties associated with the accused, seizing more electronic devices and two firearms owned by a relative, the release said.
Roussel said "the threat was not imminent" at the time the teen was arrested.
"We didn't believe that something was going to happen that day, but we wanted to get him before the school week," she said.
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Police in Nova Scotia say a teen in Bridgewater and a youth from Manitoba have been arrested for allegedly planning simultaneous attacks at their local schools.