(CTV) A crown prosecutor is now treating a man’s alleged threat of a mass killing in Montreal in May as a terrorist act and wants to secure a life sentence for the accused.
Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, was arrested by the RCMP last month and charged with one count of uttering threats. According to the Mounties, he allegedly told an employee at a local homeless shelter in late May that he wanted to “commit an attack with the goal of killing a large number of people.”
Uttering threats carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, however, the prosecutor told the court Monday that the attorney general believes the threat Warsame allegedly made constituted terrorist activity and filed notice to upgrade the punishment to a life sentence, if he’s found guilty.
