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Jury expected to get instructions in Saskatchewan stabbing rampage

Coroner’s inquest nears end in 2022 James Smith Cree Nation mass killing
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Treaty Commissioner of Saskatchewan, Mary Musqua-Culbertson, speaks to media during the public coroner’s inquest into the mass stabbings that happened on James Smith Cree Nation in 2022 in Melfort, Sask., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

Jurors are set to receive instructions from a coroner this morning as an inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation reaches its final stages.

Myles Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, on Sept. 4, 2022.

He died in police custody a few days later.

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