Melody Bryant, also known as James Cody Bryant, was arrested this month and charged with conspiring to murder people in a foreign country. She is being held pending trial, which is scheduled for Dec. 21 but may be delayed.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Bryant allegedly failed to alert authorities to Jesse Van Rootselaar’s plans, agreed to help distribute a livestream of the attack, provided money and advised Van Rootselaar on deleting online messages to conceal the plot.

Bryant’s public defender, Greg Murphy, has said she tried at times to dissuade Van Rootselaar from carrying out an attack. Investigators have acknowledged that account, according to the available court reporting.

Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother at home before attacking a nearby secondary school in Tumbler Ridge on Feb. 10, according to the complaint’s account of the case. Five children, ages 12 and 13, and an educational assistant were killed at the school. Van Rootselaar was later found dead from what authorities described as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The attack killed eight people in total and wounded 27.

Tumbler Ridge, a mountain community in the Canadian Rockies, lies more than 1,000 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, near the Alberta border. The case links a resident of northwest Washington to a mass-casualty attack across the international border, while the allegations against Bryant remain to be tested in court.