Teen accused of threatening Halifax high school pleads guilty to gun-related offence

Josh Hoffman · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 4:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 16

A teenage boy accused of making threats against a Halifax precocious schoolhouse has pleaded blameworthy to 1 of the dozens of charges he's facing.

The 16-year-old was arrested astatine his location connected the greeting of April 23 aft constabulary received a extremity from a termination hotline relation alleging the teen said helium was going to sprout up Citadel High and past instrumentality his ain life.

The teen appeared successful younker justness tribunal successful Halifax connected Monday and entered a blameworthy plea to a complaint of unlawfully handling ammunition. He is scheduled to beryllium sentenced successful September.

The boy, whose individuality is protected nether the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is facing 32 different charges, including different gun-related offences and threats against different students and racialized communities.  

Many of the charges subordinate to rifles, shotguns and antithetic airguns recovered astatine the teen's home. He is besides charged with wilfully promoting hatred against Black and Jewish communities implicit the past twelvemonth by creating online hatred groups, according to tribunal documents. 

He is expected to beryllium backmost successful tribunal to participate a plea for those remaining charges adjacent month. 

Psychological appraisal ordered

The teenager, who was denied bail astatine a proceeding successful May, has remained successful custody since helium was arrested much than 7 weeks ago. 

On Monday, Judge Bronwyn Duffy ordered the teen to acquisition a intelligence appraisal astatine the petition of his lawyer. 

The appraisal is expected to instrumentality respective weeks but beryllium complete before the teen is sentenced successful September.