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   From: zinn@reno.us   
      
   Myles Sanderson, one of two suspects in a stabbing spree that left 10   
   people dead in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, has died, police   
   said Wednesday night. He had been arrested earlier in the afternoon   
   following a three-day manhunt.   
      
   "Shortly after his arrest, he went into medical distress," Rhonda   
   Blackmore, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police   
   Saskatchewan, said at a press conference Wednesday night. He was   
   transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Blackmore said.   
   A cause of death was not given.   
      
   An official previously told The Associated Press that Sanderson had died   
   of self-inflicted wounds. The official did not explain when or how those   
   wounds were sustained.   
      
   Sanderson's brother, 30-year-old Damien Sanderson, who is also suspected   
   in the attacks, was found dead Monday. His wounds did not appear to be   
   self-inflicted, police said.   
      
   Prior to his arrest, police received a report that Sanderson was armed   
   with a knife and outside a residence, from which he stole a white SUV. The   
   owner of the vehicle was not hurt, Blackmore said. After the SUV was   
   spotted speeding on the highway, the vehicle was "directed off the road   
   and into a nearby ditch" by police, Blackmore said. Sanderson was the only   
   occupant of the vehicle, according to Blackmore.   
      
   An official familiar with the matter said officers rammed Sanderson's   
   vehicle and he surrendered. The official spoke on condition of anonymity   
   as the person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.   
      
   Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV off to the side of the   
   road with police cars all around.   
      
   "Myles Sanderson was located and taken into police custody near Rosthern,   
   SK at approximately 3:30 p.m. today," the province of Saskatchewan said in   
   an emergency alert Wednesday afternoon. "There is no longer a risk to   
   public safety relating to this investigation."   
      
   Myles Sanderson, 32, was facing three counts of first-degree murder, one   
   count of attempted murder and one count of break-and-enter.   
      
   Shortly before police said Myles Sanderson had been apprehended, a person   
   who was reported to be armed with a knife was sighted in the town of Wakaw   
   and in the city of Prince Albert, RCMP said. Wakaw is about 40 miles south   
   of Prince Albert. Both are in Saskatchewan.   
      
   The person was spotted in a 2008 white Chevrolet Avalanche with   
   Saskatchewan license plate No. 953 LPL. The vehicle was reported stolen at   
   2:10 p.m. local time, police said.   
      
   Some family members of the victims arrived at the scene and thanked   
   police, including Brian Burns, whose wife and son were killed.   
      
   "Now we can start to heal. The healing begins today, now," he said.   
      
   Another of Burns' sons was wounded and "hopefully can sleep at night now   
   knowing he's behind bars," Burns said.   
      
   Sunday's stabbing spree occurred in 13 separate locations throughout the   
   James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, authorities said. Police said that   
   the death of Sanderson's brother, 30-year-old Damien Sanderson, did not   
   appear to be self-inflicted.   
      
   Along with the 10 fatalities, another 19 people were injured in the   
   stabbing attack.   
      
   The stabbing rampage raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con   
   with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on   
   the streets in the first place.   
      
   He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of   
   over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had   
   been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his   
   release, though the details were not immediately clear.   
      
   His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked   
   and stabbed one of the victims killed in the weekend rampage, according to   
   court records.   
      
   Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said there will be an   
   investigation into the parole board's assessment of Sanderson.   
      
   "I want to know the reasons behind the decision" to release him, Mendicino   
   said. "I'm extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has   
   been left reeling."   
      
   Investigators have not given a motive for the bloodshed.   
      
   The Saskatchewan Coroner's Service said nine of those killed were from the   
   James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns,   
   28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head,   
   49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49, One was from Weldon, 78-   
   year-old Wesley Patterson.   
      
   Authorities would not say how the victims might be related.   
      
   Mark Arcand said his half-sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.   
      
   "Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to   
   help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside   
   him," he said. "Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless   
   acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys.   
   This is why she is a hero."   
      
   Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he   
   said, "I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling.   
   What I saw that day I can't get out of my head."   
      
   As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: "We're all looking for   
   those same answers. We don't know what happened. Maybe we'll never know.   
   That's the hardest part of this."   
      
   Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce   
   Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Jones repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He   
   later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns' life.   
      
   Many of Sanderson's crimes were committed when he was intoxicated,   
   according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that   
   substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly   
   violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.   
      
   Canada's Indigenous communities are plagued by drugs and alcohol.   
      
   "The drug problem and the alcohol problem on these reserves is way out of   
   hand," said Ivor Wayne Burns, whose sister was killed in the weekend   
   attacks. "We have dead people, and we asked before for something to be   
   done."   
      
   Myles Sanderson's childhood was marked by violence, neglect and substance   
   abuse, court records show. Sanderson, who is Indigenous and was raised on   
   the Cree reserve, population 1,900, started drinking and smoking marijuana   
   at around 12, and cocaine followed soon after.   
      
   In 2017, he barged into his ex-girlfriend's home, punched a hole in the   
   door of a bathroom while his two children were hiding in a bathtub and   
   threw a cement block at a vehicle parked outside, according to parole   
   documents.   
      
   He got into a fight a few days later at a store, threatening to kill an   
   employee and burn down his parents' home, documents said.   
      
   That November he threatened an accomplice into robbing a fast-food   
      
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