Myles Sanderson, the 30-year-old suspect in the fatal stabbings in Canada, has been arrested. The Canadian police reported this on Wednesday evening just before midnight (Dutch time).
Police have been on a massive manhunt since Sunday for Sanderson, who, along with his brother Damien, is suspected of stabbing ten people to death and injuring 18 others in rural Canada. Damien was previously found dead with visible injuries. Myles is also suspected of stabbing his brother to death.
According to the police, the threat to the community in the province of Saskatchewan has passed with the arrest. The men’s motives have not yet been released. Six of the ten dead have the same last name, Canadian police said on Wednesday. It is not known whether they are relatives. The victims are between 23 and 78 years old.
Earlier, more was known about the criminal background of Myles Sanderson. According to Canadian media, he has been convicted of, among other things, assault, threats, theft and assaulting a police officer. He had been on parole from prison since February, where he served a prison sentence of more than four years for assault and theft. Indigenous leaders in James Smith Cree Nation believe the stabbings may be related to drug crime.
The suspect’s parents called on him to turn himself in on Wednesday in an interview with CBC News. “Myles, my boy, please do the right thing and come back,” his mother said. His father made the same appeal, “hoping no one else gets hurt.” The two apologized. “I wish I had dreamed this,” said the father.
The first reports of fatal stabbings came in at 5:40 a.m. Sunday morning in the James Smith Cree Nation, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. At 3:30 a.m. (local time) Wednesday afternoon, the four-day manhunt ended with the arrest of Myles near Rosthern, more than an hour’s drive from where the stabbings took place, police said.
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