The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia said a 19-year-old man from the rural town of Timberlea had plotted with a 23-year-old woman from the US city of Geneva, Illinois to open fire somewhere in Halifax on Saturday. Two others were also allegedly involved.
it was not thought to be terror related.
They "had access to firearms and it was their intention to go to a public venue in the Halifax region on February 14th with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then themselves," the RCMP said in a statement.
Police said the Timberlea man was found dead in a home early Friday.
The American woman was arrested shortly after - along with a 20-year-old man - without incident at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
Police arrested a fourth suspect, a 17-year-old boy from Cole Harbour, at a home later on Friday.
"It's a group of individuals that were of the same ... mind to commit a heinous event and then take their own lives," RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brian Brennan told a news conference.
Brennan told CTV News that the plot was not considered to be related to terrorism.
Police said they first received word of a "potential significant weapons-related threat" on Thursday morning.
The region's Serious Incident Response Team was investigating the death of the Timberlea man.
All three suspects were being held in police custody.
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