The Halifax mass shooting plot took place between February 12 and February 14, 2015. Police were alerted to three people, identified as Lindsay Souvannarath, Randall Shepherd, and James Gamble, who were reportedly conspiring to commit a mass killing at the Halifax Shopping Centre. Souvannarath and Shepherd were arrested and convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, while Gamble was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound soon after learning of the impending police investigation.

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Souvannarath, Shepherd, and Gamble first met on the website GameFAQs via it's "Current Events" message board,[8][9] but often collaborated on Tumblr, where they shared an obsession with death, true crime, and Nazi imagery. Gamble's blog included imagery of Nazis and the Columbine High School massacre,[10] along with pictures of guns from World War II, and Shepherd's contained posts relating to death/black metal bands and gore, whereas on Souvannarath's blog, headlined with "School Shooter Chic; violence is the aesthetic," she made many allusions to events of mass murder and mayhem in the month of February and as early as several months beforehand, interspersed with anti-Semitic comments in juxtaposition with posts of photo sets of Japanese fashion on her pastel-pink background. Souvannarath also showed intense infatuation with Varg Vikernes, best known as the sole member of the black metal project Burzum, who has been accused of being a white nationalist and previously served a 21-year prison sentence for murder and arson.[citation needed] On February 5, 2015, Gamble reblogged a photo Souvannarath posted on Tumblr saying "Valentine's Day, it's going down", hinting to the would-be shooting.[11][12]

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