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Since 2017, Canada has witnessed a gunman masquerading as a policeman kill 22 people in Nova Scotia, another murder six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, and a driver of a van kill 11 pedestrians in Toronto. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the attacks shocking and heartbreaking, while lamenting that "tragedies like these have become all too commonplace." They are scared (that) he might come back and do it again," Works added. People are pressed "against the glass looking out the window. Now you don't see any."īefore the lockdown, she said residents of the nearby Indigenous community had also been "locking themselves in." People are scared to come out of their homes," she said. The former Olympian described an eerie tension settling across the region. "It's just devastating," Weldon resident Ruby Works told AFP. In the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon, residents have described overwhelming grief and fear. But Myles Sanderson has a history of explosive violence that led to nearly 60 past criminal convictions. "He may be injured and seek medical attention," Blackmore added.Ī motive is not yet known for the rampage. The younger Sanderson - who is also wanted for breaching parole in May after serving part of a sentence for assault and robbery - is suspected of having killed his brother, she said. Late Monday federal police assistant commissioner Rhonda Blackmore announced they had found the mutilated body of the second suspect, 31-year-old Damien Sanderson, in a grassy area near a house that was being examined in the James Smith Cree Nation. Police in heavily armoured vehicles surged into the community, while calling on area residents to "seek immediate shelter/shelter in place." A police helicopter flew overhead into the Indigenous area.
It suddenly turned back to this Indigenous community on Tuesday after police released an emergency message warning that investigators had "received reports of a possible sighting" of suspect Myles Sanderson, 30.
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