The accused in the deadly La Loche, Sask., school shooting in 2016 talked about his plans a year before the event that killed four people, a sentencing court was told Tuesday.
The hearing for the now 19-year-old man is revealing more details about the shooting in northern Saskatchewan, partly based on an agreed statement of facts.
"If someone came into the school one day and shot it up and they told you it was me, would you believe it?" the shooter is reported to have told a friend. The friend didn't take him seriously.

On Jan. 22, 2016, days before his 18th birthday, the teen walked into the community's high school and started firing.
Teacher Adam Wood, 35, and teacher's assistant Marie Janvier, 21, were killed. Seven other people were injured. Brothers Drayden, 13, and Dayne Fontaine, 17, were shot and killed in a house in the village prior to the school shooting.
The shooter, who has pleaded guilty to the crimes, can't be identified because of his age at the time of the offence. The Crown prosecutor wants him to be sentenced as an adult.

Brothers murdered

The sentencing hearing went through a lengthy timeline of what happened that day.
The day before the killings, the shooter researched firearms and ammunition on the internet. He also searched the phrase "what does it feel like to kill someone?" as well as details on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
On Jan. 22, 2016, the shooter first killed Drayden and Dayne Fontaine. The court heard that Dayne Fontaine was shot 11 times. He begged for his life, and then was shot in the head.
Drayden, the younger brother, was shot twice, once in the face and once in the head.
After shooting the two brothers, the accused then took a shotgun to the school.

Surveillance footage

A 911 call was made by teacher Adam Wood, telling police that there was a shooter in the school. Wood was shot once in the torso, and once after he fell on the floor. He died of his injuries.
Images from the school's surveillance footage show the youth in the school, with his shotgun extended, firing at teachers and students.
RCMP arrived in the school and began searching for the shooter.
At one point, the youth went into a washroom with one unspent shell. Court heard he contemplated suicide.
Instead, he came out of the washroom without the gun and surrendered to police.
The youth fired the gun 13 times inside the school.

'An adult crime,' victim says 

Phyllis Longobardi remembers coming face to face with the shooter that day. The assistant principal was shot and six pellets hit her. For her, there is only one appropriate sentence.
"He can use any excuse he wants, but that's not a kid crime, that's an adult crime he did, so he needs to serve an adult sentence," Longobardi said.
Longobardi will be at the hearings this week, one of several witnesses and victims expected to give victim impact statements.
She said she will never forget that day and she hopes that the shooter won't either.
"An adult sentence, that's life, and you will never get to forget, and that's the part I want to happen. He never gets a chance to forget what he did," she said.
Sask School Shooting 20170119
Phyllis Longobardi, assistant principal of the La Loche high school, was wounded by gunfire in a shooting at the school on Jan. 22, 2016. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
The hearing is scheduled to last two weeks and will hear from witnesses, police and victims of the school shooting.
Psychiatric reports are also expected to be presented at the hearing.
According to his defence lawyer, the onus is on the Crown to prove why he should be sentenced as an adult.
"Because he is a youth, there is a large focus on his particular situation, over and above the offence itself," Aaron Fox said.
Fox said the Crown will present its case for an adult sentence this week. Afterward, the defence will get its turn. ​
Sask Shooting 20160125
Bullet holes are seen in the front door of the La Loche Community School in La Loche, Sask., in January 2016. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)
Nick Bala, a Queen's University professor who specializes in youth justice, says there are a host of factors in determining whether to apply a youth or an adult sentence.
"The nature of the crime is significant, the degree of deliberateness and planning, but probably more significant are the young person's background, was he from a disadvantaged background, what is his mental state, the amenability to rehabilitation, his First Nations background," Bala said.

Hearing to be live streamed to La Loche

The teenager pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in October.
La Loche Mayor Robert St. Pierre said people in the community will be watching the case closely. It will be live streamed from Meadow Lake to the courthouse in La Loche.
The judge is not expected to make her decision in the case until some time after the hearing wraps up next month.
CBC reporter Charles Hamilton will be reporting live from court today. You can follow his tweets below.
On mobile? Click here.