A 23-year-old man faces threatening communications charges after police executed a search warrant in Orléans in relation to threats against St. Mark Catholic High School in Manotick.

Ottawa police say the search warrant was executed at about 8:28 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 300 block of River Ridge Crescent, where a suspect was arrested without incident.

Spencer Shamy appeared in court Monday. He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in court again on Tuesday morning.

The threat came in response to social media posts from a staff member at the Grade 7 to 12 school about the recent killing of conservative media personality Charlie Kirk, who was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

The comments attributed to a teacher referred to Kirk as a “ha

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