The Halifax mall plot: New details released about planned Valentine’s Day attack
HALIFAX — They called it “Der Untergang” — The Downfall.
The plan, conceived by a young Canadian man and, allegedly, an American girlfriend, was to kill as many people as possible in an attack on a Halifax shopping mall on Valentine’s Day 2015, and to take “their place of fame amongst the world’s mass-murderers.”
“The massacre was to end with their own suicides,” according to an agreed statement of facts released Tuesday at the sentencing of 22-year-old Randall Steven Shepherd, described as a “cheerleader” for the two alleged plotters. The Halifax man was ordered to serve 10 years in jail after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.
The document offers many new details of the plot, which was led by 19-year-old James Gamble, Shepherd’s best friend, and allegedly joined by an Illinois woman Gamble had met online, Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, 24. The allegations against her have not been proved in court. She is scheduled to go on trial in May.