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<\/p>\nWARNING: This story contains references to violent crime and racially motivated attacks.<\/p>\n
In the months leading up to a sword attack at a Brandon, Man., high school, a teen wrote in a notebook about “invaders” of Canada \u2014 specifically Black and Muslim immigrants \u2014 and his mass murder plan.<\/p>\n
That’s according to an agreed statement of facts presented in court Tuesday, as the trial for the boy began unexpectedly ahead of schedule in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench. The day was originally scheduled for a pretrial hearing.<\/p>\n
The now 17-year-old, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded not guilty to nine charges related to the June 10, 2025, attack at Neelin High School in the southwestern Manitoba city, including three charges of attempted murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He’s also charged with aggravated assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, wearing a disguise with intent and two counts of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the charges were read out, the boy became emotional, prompting the judge to ask him if he needed a break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2025 attack left a fellow 15-year-old student \u2014 who is Black and whose family is originally from Nigeria \u2014 with major injuries, in what police have previously described as a racially motivated crime.<\/p>\n
Details of the attack were revealed in court in an agreed statement of facts read by federal Crown prosecutor Hugh Crawley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just after 10 a.m. on the morning of the attack, the accused, then a Grade 10 student, told a friend on the phone that he was going through with the plan he’d been formulating for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WATCH | Teen wrote about ‘invaders,’ mass murder plan, court hears:<\/p>\n
Teen accused in Neelin High School sword attack pleads not guilty<\/p>\n
A teenager charged in a sword attack at Neelin High School in Brandon, Man., in 2025 pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to nine charges, including three counts of attempted murder. Court heard that the 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, allegedly wrote in a notebook about “invaders” of Canada \u2014 specifically Black and Muslim immigrants \u2014 and his mass murder plan in the months leading up to the attack.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 1 p.m., he entered the school wearing black pants and a black trench coat, with a concealed sword and steak knife. He went to a washroom and put on a black “plague” face mask, which featured a long, beak-like nose and covered most of his face.<\/p>\n
He then entered the east hallway of the high school, which has about 380 students in grades 9 to 12.<\/p>\n
The victim, a fellow student, stopped to tell the teen he liked the costume.\u00a0They spoke for a few seconds before the accused stabbed the other teen multiple times in his shoulder, chest, stomach, thigh and arm. <\/p>\n
The victim \u2014 a 15-year-old Grade 10 student \u2014 grabbed at the sword to try to prevent the attack, which severed one of his fingers and cut others.<\/p>\n
That victim ran away, with the accused following, then ducked into the administration office.<\/p>\n
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Brandon community cadets are seen outside Neelin High School in Brandon on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Chelsea Kemp\/CBC)<\/p>\n
He passed by the principal, Baseswa Nundu, who thought the victim was playing a joke. Soon after, the accused spotted the principal and chased him down the hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nundu ran into a nearby classroom and held the door closed. The accused stabbed at a small glass window by the door, narrowly missing Nundu’s eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The accused then walked down the hallway past several Caucasian students and didn’t react, the agreed statement reads. He saw another student, identified in the statement only as B, and started chasing that student with his sword above his head. <\/p>\n
A Caucasian teacher stopped the accused and was unharmed.<\/p>\n
According to the agreed statement of facts read by Crawley, the accused entered a classroom and asked if there were “any blacks.” The students told him no and the accused left.<\/p>\n
‘Why didn’t you shoot me?’<\/p>\n
By this point \u2014 about five minutes after the accused had entered the school \u2014 the principal had ordered a lockdown and the hallways were largely empty.<\/p>\n
Seven minutes after the teen entered the school, Brandon police officers arrived. Nearly the entire Brandon police service was sent to the school, the statement of facts says.<\/p>\n
The accused asked police to shoot him in the head and refused to drop the sword, the statement says.<\/p>\n
Police used a Taser on him twice before he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Once in custody, the teen shouted, “Why didn’t you shoot me?” and “I wanted you to shoot me.”<\/p>\n
The teen “told every officer he encountered that he was intoxicated,” according to the agreed statement of facts, but officers said he showed no signs of this.<\/p>\n
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More bloodshed intended in Brandon high school sword attack: police<\/p>\n
A 16-year-old boy accused of attacking and seriously injuring another student with a sword at Neelin High School in Brandon, Man., intended to hurt more people, but was stopped by the swift action of school staff and officers, police say. Community members have left chalk messages of support for students and staff on the sidewalks outside the school.<\/p>\n
In a videotaped interview with police, played in court Tuesday, the boy told detectives he’d been planning the incident for months and he’d gotten the sword from his home, saying it belonged to his sister. He said he practised with it in the bushes in his yard.<\/p>\n
When pressed on his motive, he said he wanted to “go out with a bang” and hoped that would garner praise from certain people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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