More charges for teen accused of planning Manitoba school shooting
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RCMP have laid additional charges against a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a school shooting at Rivers Collegiate in western Manitoba.
Blue Hills RCMP were first alerted in March to an online conversation between the boy and a 15-year-old girl from Nova Scotia in which the boy allegedly said he planned to harm students at his school in Rivers.
The Nova Scotian teenager was also allegedly planning a school shooting, police in that province have said.
Tim Smith / Brandon Sun files
A 14-year-old boy was arrested on March 16, accused of planning an attack at Rivers Collegiate.
An entrance to Rivers Collegiate Institute in Rivers on Wednesday afternoon. Rolling River School Division Supt. Jason Cline sent an email to parents on Tuesday informing them that RCMP took a student from Rivers into custody while he was on a divisional school bus. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Both teens were arrested on March 16. The boy was pulled off a school bus by RCMP and charged with uttering threats.
Crown prosecutors have authorized additional charges against the teenager, Mounties said on Thursday.
“This incident was very concerning, both for RCMP and for the community,” said Manitoba RCMP spokesman Kevin Engstrom.
“The additional charges underscore the severity of the threats made against students and are a reflection of the efforts made by our officers over the past two months to ensure the investigation into this incident was thorough and complete.”
He was re-arrested at the Manitoba Youth Centre in Winnipeg on Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, counselling the offence of murder and two more counts of uttering threats.
RCMP have analyzed the boy’s phone and electronic devices and executed two warrants at properties he lived at, where they seized additional electronics and two guns owned by a relative.
The accused is due in court on June 4.
Interpol and the FBI alerted Manitoba RCMP and the Bridgewater Police Service in Nova Scotia about the “concerning online conversation,” Bridgewater police said in March.
The conversation began in late February.
Police in Nova Scotia charged the girl with conspiracy to commit murder and uttering threats for an alleged plot to attack Parkview Education Centre, a secondary school in Bridgewater.
Detailed handwritten plans, imitation weapons, a roughly made imitation pipe bomb, an assault rifle, and clothing bearing hate symbols were found during a search of her home, police said.
The accused cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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Updated on Thursday, May 14, 2026 3:33 PM CDT: Adds quote from RCMP.