Police were alerted to three people, identified as Lindsay Souvannarath, Randall Shepherd, and James Gamble, who were reportedly conspiring to commit a mass killing at the Halifax Shopping Centre.
[7] Souvannarath, Shepherd, and Gamble first met on the website GameFAQs via its "Current Events" message board,[8][9] but often collaborated on Tumblr, where they shared an obsession with death, true crime, and Nazi imagery.
Gamble's blog included imagery of Nazis and the Columbine High School massacre,[10] along with pictures of guns from World War II, and Shepherd's contained posts relating to death/black metal bands and gore, whereas on Souvannarath's blog, headlined with "School Shooter Chic; violence is the aesthetic," she made many allusions to events of mass murder and mayhem in the month of February and as early as several months beforehand, interspersed with anti-Semitic comments in juxtaposition with posts of photo sets of Japanese fashion on her pastel-pink background.
Souvannarath also showed intense infatuation with Varg Vikernes, best known as the sole member of the black metal project Burzum, who has been accused of being a white nationalist and previously served a 21-year prison sentence for murder and arson.
[21][22][23] In the seven part podcast series, Souvannarath spoke candidly about her life, her neo-Nazi radicalization,[24] her relationship with James Gamble, the planning of the shooting plot, and the events surrounding her arrest at the Halifax airport.