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Halifax Shopping Centre shooting plotter’s sentencing postponed until April
A U.S. woman’s sentencing for her role in a foiled plot to stage a mass killing at a Halifax mall won’t be going ahead next week as scheduled.
Lindsay Kanittha Souvannarath, 25, of Geneva, Ill., pleaded guilty in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax last April to a charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
Her sentencing has tentatively been postponed until next April so defence lawyer Luke Craggs can seek an expert’s report.
Lawyers will appear in Supreme Court Tuesday to confirm the new sentencing dates of April 16-20. Souvannarath will remain in custody.
The conspiracy charge involved a plan to shoot members of the public at Halifax Shopping Centre on Valentine’s Day 2015.
Co-conspirator Randall Steven Shepherd, 23, of Halifax pleaded guilty to the same charge last November and was sentenced to 10 years in prison less credit for his remand time.
The Crown has said it will seek a longer sentence for Souvannarath.
At Shepherd’s sentencing, the court heard that friend James Gamble planned to shoot up the mall’s food court with Souvannarath, whom he had met online.
Shepherd refused to take part in the shooting but helped the others prepare. He scouted out the food court in advance with Gamble, purchased a hacksaw and a can of gasoline, and provided other materials needed to make Molotov cocktails for the attack.
Shepherd also agreed to meet Souvannarath at the Halifax airport, where the pair were arrested Feb. 13, 2015.
Police learned of the shooting plot through a Crime Stoppers tip. Gamble, 19, shot and killed himself Feb. 13 after police showed up at his Timberlea home.
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http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1506240-halifax-shopping-centre-shooting-plotter’s-sentencing-postponed-until-april
A U.S. woman’s sentencing for her role in a foiled plot to stage a mass killing at a Halifax mall won’t be going ahead next week as scheduled.
Lindsay Kanittha Souvannarath, 25, of Geneva, Ill., pleaded guilty in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax last April to a charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
Her sentencing has tentatively been postponed until next April so defence lawyer Luke Craggs can seek an expert’s report.
Lawyers will appear in Supreme Court Tuesday to confirm the new sentencing dates of April 16-20. Souvannarath will remain in custody.
The conspiracy charge involved a plan to shoot members of the public at Halifax Shopping Centre on Valentine’s Day 2015.
Co-conspirator Randall Steven Shepherd, 23, of Halifax pleaded guilty to the same charge last November and was sentenced to 10 years in prison less credit for his remand time.
The Crown has said it will seek a longer sentence for Souvannarath.
At Shepherd’s sentencing, the court heard that friend James Gamble planned to shoot up the mall’s food court with Souvannarath, whom he had met online.
Shepherd refused to take part in the shooting but helped the others prepare. He scouted out the food court in advance with Gamble, purchased a hacksaw and a can of gasoline, and provided other materials needed to make Molotov cocktails for the attack.
Shepherd also agreed to meet Souvannarath at the Halifax airport, where the pair were arrested Feb. 13, 2015.
Police learned of the shooting plot through a Crime Stoppers tip. Gamble, 19, shot and killed himself Feb. 13 after police showed up at his Timberlea home.
(Emphasis mine)
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1506240-halifax-shopping-centre-shooting-plotter’s-sentencing-postponed-until-april
. lol. let's do it.
