Halifax man pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in mall plot case
Posted Nov 22, 2016 10:11:09 AM.
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HALIFAX – A Halifax man involved in an alleged mass-murder plot at a Halifax mall has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.
Randall Steven Shepherd of Halifax made the plea before Nova Scotia Supreme Court Tuesday morning.
Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath of Geneva, Illinois, still faces charges in the plot to shoot shoppers at the Halifax Shopping Centre, in the city’s west end.
The Crown alleged the two accused, along with a 19-year-old man found dead in his Halifax-area home, had planned to attack the mall on Valentine’s Day in 2015.
Defence counsel said in court that a joint recommendation is going to be made for his sentence.
