Canada stabbings suspect has died in custody, police say

Updated September 7, 2022 at 11:30 p.m. EDT|Published September 7, 2022 at 6:11 p.m. EDT

Canadian police confirmed Sept. 7 that Myles Sanderson, the second suspect in the Saskatchewan mass stabbings, died in custody after a four-day manhunt. (Video: Julie Yoon/The Washington Post)

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TORONTO — Fugitive stabbings suspect Myles Sanderson died in police custody Wednesday after a four-day manhunt that set the province of Saskatchewan on edge, police said.

Sanderson, 32, and his brother, Damien Sanderson, 31, were charged with murder in the stabbing attacks at the James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby village of Weldon on Sunday that killed 10 people and wounded 18 in one of Canada’s deadliest mass killings. Damien Sanderson was found dead at the James Smith Cree Nation on Monday with injuries that authorities said did not appear to be self-inflicted.