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Official: Suspect in Canada stabbing rampage died after arrest

Published:Wednesday | September 7, 2022 | 9:34 PM
A police officer stands at the scene where a stabbing suspect was arrested in Rosthern, Saskatchewan on Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Canadian police arrested Myles Sanderson, the second suspect in the stabbing deaths of multiple people in Saskatchewan, after a three-day manhunt that also yielded the body of his brother fellow suspect, Damien Sanderson. (Heywood Yu/The Canadian Press via AP)

ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan (AP) — The final suspect in a stabbing rampage that killed 10 people in and around a Canadian Indigenous reserve died after his car was run off the road by police Wednesday following a three-day manhunt, officials said.

Myles Sanderson, 32, was caught on a highway near the town of Rosthern in the province of Saskatchewan as officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle being driven by a man armed with a knife, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

Officers forced Sanderson's vehicle off the road and into a ditch, Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, said at a news conference.

She said Sanderson went into medical distress after he was arrested.

She said emergency medical personnel took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Blackmore gave no details on the cause of death.

“I can't speak to the specific manner of death,” she said.

But an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, earlier said Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries, without giving any further details.

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