Comment TORONTO — Police continued to search for a man was charged in the Saskatchewan knife killing spree on Tuesday, as the small communities at the center of the massacre mourned the 10 victims. They include a mother, a military veteran, a man whom residents considered not just a neighbor but an “uncle” and a crisis worker who died helping others in an emergency. Authorities continued to examine 13 separate crime scenes, many of them on the James Smith Cree Nation reserve and the nearby village of Weldon, where brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson are accused of carrying out Sunday’s massacre in a country where mass killings are relatively rare compared to those in the United States. Police said Monday that the body of Damien Sanderson was found in a “heavy grass area” on the James Smith Cree Nation, about 300 miles north of the US-Canada border, with injuries that did not appear to be self-inflicted. He was 31 years old. They continued to search for Miles Sanderson, 30, who they said Monday has an “extensive and lengthy criminal record” and may be injured. At least 10 dead and 15 injured in stabbings in Saskatchewan. 2 suspects free Miles Sanderson was charged Monday with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Damien Sanderson was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder before his body was found. Both were charged with breaking and entering and RCMP said more charges are possible. The attacks began Sunday morning when police received one call and then several others about stabbings in the James Smith Cree Nation, an indigenous community of 1,800 about 200 miles north of Regina, the provincial capital. They left 10 dead and 18 injured, four of whom were hospitalized in critical condition on Monday. Authorities have released few details about the victims. Rhonda Blackmore, assistant commissioner of the Saskatchewan RCMP, said some appear to have been targeted and others were attacked at random. He said they include men and women with a “wide age range”. The youngest was born in 1999. Gloria Burns, a 62-year-old addiction counselor on the James Smith Cree Nation, was identified by her siblings as one of the victims. They told local media that he responded to an emergency call during the killing spree and died along with other victims. “To get into a situation like this where [she was] to help people, even though it cost her her life … that’s who she was,” her brother Darryl Burns told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Canadian stabbing suspect found dead after 10 murders. brother in general The Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association identified Earl Burns, who served in the Canadian Army’s Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regiment, as another victim. Lana Head, a mother, was identified as the victim by Michael Brett Burns, her former partner, according to local media. In a Facebook post the day before the attack, she wrote of “So many good memories to cherish.” Her page included pictures of her dog Daisy drinking Tim Hortons and advising friends about deals at a local grocery store. “I miss her voice already,” man Melodie Whitecap wrote in a Facebook post. “She was a sweet, kind soul, she wouldn’t hurt a fly.” Weldon residents identified Wes Petterson, a 77-year-old who followed the community closely and was the “sweetest” guy, as another victim. Ruby Works told Global News she knew him since she was a little girl and he was like an uncle to her. “When I found out my friend was killed, I just hit the ground,” he said. “Why go in and kill an innocent who did nothing? He didn’t deserve this.”
