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MELFORT, Sask. – The RCMP are releasing details on a stabbing rampage last year in Saskatchewan. Eleven people were killed and 18 were injured on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon on Sept. 4, 2022. Mounties have said Myles Sanderson, who later died in police custody, carried out the attacks.
Here are the latest developments from the police news conference (all times are CT):
10:15 a.m.
RCMP say that on Sept. 1, 2022, the suspect Myles Sanderson travelled to James Smith Cree Nation to sell cocaine.
The next day, Sanderson seriously assaulted a woman he was with in a vehicle.
Mounties say Sanderson then attempted to use the vehicle as a weapon to cause further injury to the woman outside a home.
Sanderson and his brother, Damien Sanderson, later left the home, picked up another woman and continued to sell drugs.
They then headed to a nearby bar.
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9:55 a.m.
Commanding Officer of the Saskatchewan RCMP Rhonda Blackmore says details of the killings last year at James Smith Cree Nation are unimaginable.
She says RCMP examined 42 different crime scenes, including buildings and vehicles.
Blackmore says over 697 exhibits were seized, over 250 witnesses were interviewed and 1,250 investigative tasks were assigned.
Photos of the 11 people who died have been set up on a table with a candle lit in front of each one.
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9:36 a.m.
The RCMP have begun delivering their preliminary timeline of events surrounding the 11 killings on James Smith Cree Nation and nearby village of Weldon, Sask.
The timeline covers Sept. 1 to Sept. 9, 2022.
A handful of people from the community are attending the presentation, with several women wearing ribbon skirts.
Darryl Burns, whose sister Lydia Gloria Burns died in the stabbings, says he received the timeline yesterday with other family members.
He says it brought him a little bit of closure.
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9:30 a.m.
Saskatchewan RCMP are set to present a preliminary timeline of a mass killing on James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon last year.
They say Mounties presented the timeline to family members of the victims today.
Officers also participated in smudging, prayers and a pipe ceremony to honour the 11 who died.
RCMP have also raised a teepee outside a community centre in Melfort, Sask., where the presentation is happening for media today.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 27, 2023.
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