{"id":571815,"date":"2026-03-31T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:37:08","slug":"b-c-youth-charged-over-alleged-school-shooting-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571815\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. youth charged over alleged school shooting threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Vancouver Island say a youth who lives in Sooke, B.C., has been charged after allegedly making threats about a school shooting in online chats with a 15-year-old in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say the investigation was spurred after police in Louisville, Ky., made contact earlier this month about a 15-year-old there who had been communicating with \u201csomeone from Canada\u201d over the gaming platform Discord.<\/p>\n<p>Mounties say the B.C. youth is a student at Edward Milne Community School, and the arrest was made on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they searched the youth\u2019s home and seized electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>They say the homeland security unit of the Louisville Metro Police Department started investigating the alleged threats in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say the Canadian youth is in custody before a bail hearing, and the case is subject to court-ordered publication bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Vancouver Island say a youth who lives in Sooke, B.C., has been charged after allegedly making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-571815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571815","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=571815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}