15-year-old facing charges for allegedly planning ‘violent attack’ on N.S. school

Police say a 15-year-old is facing serious charges for allegedly planning a “violent attack” at a school in Bridgewater, N.S.

INTERPOL and the FBI alerted the Bridgewater Police Service last Friday to an ongoing online conversation between two Canadian youths that began in late February.

One youth is from Bridgewater and the other is from Manitoba.

Police say the Bridgewater youth talked about wanting to mount a “violent attack” on students at Parkview Education Centre. The school teaches approximately 880 students from Grade 10 to 12, according to its website.

“It was specific to killing and murdering other students. The matter of how they were going to conduct those murders was not clear at this point,” Bridgewater Deputy Police Chief Danny MacPhee told CTV News Atlantic.

Read more: CTV News (Canada)