SASKATOON—The last suspect in the murders of 10 people in a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan has died after going into medical distress shortly after his arrest.
At a news conference in the evening of Sept. 7, RCMP said a stolen white truck being driven by 32-year-old suspect Myles Sanderson was hunted down and “directed” into a ditch.
“Police officers surrounded the vehicle and through verbal identification confirmed the identity of the driver to be Myles Sanderson,” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore told a news conference at RCMP headquarters in Regina. “He was arrested by police and taken into custody.”
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore speaks during a press conference at RCMP F Division Headquarters in Regina on Sept. 7, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Michael Bell)
However, she said, not long after Sanderson’s arrest he went into medical distress. She said police used every life-saving measure at their disposal, and an ambulance was called. Sanderson was taken to a hospital in Saskatoon, Blackmore said, where he was pronounced dead. She didn’t specify a cause of death….