A federal judge has ordered a Bellingham, Washington, resident held pending further proceedings in a conspiracy case tied to a deadly school attack in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler ruled Tuesday that conditions such as limits on internet access would not adequately protect the community if Melody Bryant, also known as James Cody Bryant, were released. Bryant was charged this month with conspiring to murder people in a foreign country and has not entered a plea. A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle alleges Bryant was in daily contact with Jesse Van Rootselaar, who authorities say carried out the attack in February. Prosecutors allege Bryant did not alert authorities to Van Rootselaar’s plans, agreed to distribute a livestream of the attack, provided money and shared advice on deleting online messages. Bryant’s public defender, Greg Murphy, argued for her release, saying he had not received evidence needed to assess the government’s case. He also pointed to the seven months Bryant remained free after federal agents first interviewed her, and said authorities waited four days after filing the complaint on Oct. 2 to take her into custody. Murphy argued that the government had not shown a new danger had emerged during that period. Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said the charge carries a presumption of detention and argued that Bryant’s months of contact with someone planning a mass killing weighed against release. The judge concluded that no proposed conditions would sufficiently address the risk. Authorities say Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother at home before attacking a nearby secondary school in the Canadian mountain community. Five children, ages 12 and 13, and an educational assistant were killed at the school; 27 people were wounded. Van Rootselaar was later found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tumbler Ridge is in the Canadian Rockies, more than 1,000 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, near the Alberta border. The attack has also prompted legal action in the United States: victims’ families are suing OpenAI, alleging the company failed to alert police about the shooter’s troubling interactions with its chatbot. Those allegations are part of a separate case.