{"id":146401,"date":"2025-09-15T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146401\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:58:08","slug":"police-at-manotick-school-after-alleged-threats-over-charlie-kirk-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146401\/","title":{"rendered":"Police at Manotick school after alleged threats over Charlie Kirk post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a police presence around a high school in Manotick after a man was charged with \u201cthreatening communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to The Canadian Press, Ottawa police charged a man over alleged threats made to St. Mark\u2019s Catholic High School in response to a staff member\u2019s social media post on the death of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the incident happened on Sept. 14 around 8:28 a.m. It prompted a search warrant by police in the 300 block of River Ridge Crescent, where they also found the suspect. He was arrested without incident.<\/p>\n<p>The principal of St. Mark High School in south Ottawa sent a message to parents Sunday morning telling them that a threat had been made against the school.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Catholic School Board is looking into social media posts that a board spokesperson confirmed to The Canadian Press were related to <a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/15\/dna-evidence-found-near-scene-of-charlie-kirks-shooting-matches-suspect-fbi-director-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kirk, a right-wing U.S. activist who was gunned down<\/a> on a Utah college campus last week.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old man is facing a charge after the communications. <\/p>\n<p>A second letter sent to the families of St. Mark students Sunday evening says police believe there is currently no risk to students or staff.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that could help this investigation is asked to contact the East Criminal Investigations Unit at 613-236-1222, extension 3566, or provide an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a police presence around a high school in Manotick after a man was charged with \u201cthreatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-146401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}