The 10 victims of the mass stabbing in Canada on Sunday range in age from 23 to 78 years old and all but one are from the Indigenous community of James Smith Cree Nation, according to authorities. The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service and Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police provided names and ages of the victims in a statement Wednesday but declined to confirm the relationships between them. Six of the victims share the last name Burns, two share the last name Head, and one shares the last name of the two suspects in the attacks. The victims were identified as: 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 Robert Sanderson, 49 Wesley Petterson, 78 Petterson is from Weldon, Saskatchewan, while the other nine victims are from James Smith Cree Nation. (…) In addition, 18 people were injured in the stabbing attacks, but authorities will not be releasing their identities. “We can confirm one young teen was injured and the remaining injured are all adults. We will not be confirming other specific ages,” the agencies said. (…) Authorities have identified brothers Myles and Damien Sanderson as suspects. Myles Sanderson remains at large and is considered “armed and dangerous,” while Damien Sanderson was found dead a day after the attacks with injuries that were not believed to be self-inflicted, police said. Police have warned that Myles Sanderson may be injured. He is wanted on a warrant for three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and breaking and entering into a residence.
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siehe auch: Assault, threats, attempted murder charge: Court records show mass murder suspect Myles Sanderson’s history of violence Court records from the past 10 years show Myles Sanderson’s history of assault, threats and using knives as weapons. Myles Sanderson, the man wanted in Sunday’s mass killing in the Saskatchewan communities of James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, previously tried to threaten, assault or kill members of the First Nation, according to court documents. Article content The Courts of Saskatchewan on Wednesday released 10 years of records showing charges filed by police in the Melfort, Regina and Prince Albert courts. (…) He was sentenced to two years less a day in October 2015 for the Jan. 25, 2015 stabbing of a man identified as Earl Burns in Prince Albert, and for assault against a woman, as well as threatening to kill Burns (…) He pleaded guilty to lesser included offences for aggravated assault against Burns; Sanderson had initially been charged with attempted murder. He was initially charged with aggravated assault against the woman. On Wednesday, RCMP identified the 10 victims of Sunday’s attack, including a 66-year old man named Earl Burns. Court records show numerous charges of assault against one woman, identified through the documents as the mother of his children, on several occasions in the 10-year period. His previous charges include stealing vehicles, as well as repeat violations of court orders, including ones preventing him from contacting his children’s mother. He pleaded guilty to a list of charges for assaulting one man and stabbing two others with a cheese knife on April 15, 2018. Article content Records show he threatened one man with death and threatened to burn the house of a woman — the man’s parent, as identified in a Parole Board of Canada decision — on July 27, 2017. Pleaded guilty to charges connected with those evenst. Sanderson was also ound guilty of assaulting a man and robbing a Subway restaurant on Nov. 30, 2017.