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Myles Sanderson, 30, remained on the loose and possibly injured,
police said, after they found his brother Damien Sanderson, 31,
dead in a grassy area of the James Smith Cree Nation in
Saskatchewan on Monday.
The brothers are suspected of murdering 10 people and wounding
18 more in a stabbing rampage that devastated an indigenous
community in one of the deadliest attacks in Canada's modern
history.
Police said some of the victims appeared to have been targeted,
while others were apparently random.
Hundreds of police officers were searching for Myles Sanderson,
who was considered armed and dangerous, said Assistant
Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore of the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, who has been briefing reporters.
Sanderson had previous run-ins with the law, and has been wanted
since May when he stopped meeting his parole officer after
serving a sentence for assault, robbery, mischief and uttering
threats, CBC News reported.
Police said they were investigating whether Sanderson may also
have killed his brother, and could have sustained injuries that
might cause him to seek medical attention.
Police had yet to offer details about the victims except they
were men and women spanning a wide range of ages.
People from the area said a mother of two, a 77-year-old widower
and a first responder were among the victims.
Some First Nation leaders connected the killings with drug use,
though police have yet to identify drugs or alcohol as a factor.
In an unrelated incident that has further rattled the province,
police in Saskatchewan said on Monday they were investigating
reports of a shooting on Witchekan Lake First Nation and warned
the public that several armed suspects were at large.
(Reporting by David Stobbe in James Smith Cree Nation and Ismail
Shakil in Ottawa; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Lincoln
Feast.)
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