Ontario Provincial Police say a 19-year-old is going through upgraded and extra charges, together with tried homicide, after allegedly making threats towards a Collingwood highschool and planning to hurt college students.
Ontario Provincial Police say a 19-year-old is going through upgraded and extra charges, together with tried homicide, after allegedly making threats towards a Collingwood highschool and planning to hurt college students.
Police say they acquired a report final September a couple of potential menace towards Collingwood Collegiate Institute by a former pupil, however it was not imminent because it had been made in March.
The suspect from Clearview Township, Ont., was initially charged in September with uttering threats to trigger demise and a number of weapons offences.
Police say officers carried out a search of a tool that exposed extra particulars, indicating the plan to hurt college students was “elaborate and well-researched.”
They are saying the previous pupil now faces greater than a dozen charges, together with one depend of tried homicide, one depend of trying to commit an assault with a weapon and two counts of possessing a firearm.
The accused stays in custody and is scheduled to look in a Barrie, Ont., court docket on Jan. 20.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 10, 2025.
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