TORONTO — Canadian police said Thursday they now believe one man, Myles Sanderson, committed all of the murders in the mass stabbings that have rocked rural Saskatchewan over the past month, including that of his brother Damien, whom police previously suspected identified suspects.

Rhonda Blackmore, deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said evidence indicates Damien Sanderson, 31, helped plan the attacks on the James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby village of Weldon, in which 11 people died in one of Canada’s deadliest mass murders.

But “Myles Sanderson committed all the murders alone,” she said at a news conference in Regina. “The RCMP believes it is important to clarify Damien’s involvement in the sequence of these events to demonstrate our continued commitment to transparency towards the victims and families of those affected and the public.”

Police initially identified both brothers as suspects in the September 4 attacks, which injured 18, rocked a province and left far more questions than answers.

Damien Sanderson was found dead at the James Smith Cree Nation with injuries that authorities said did not appear to be self-inflicted.

Authorities arrested Myles Sanderson, 32, after a nearly four-day search at the side of a highway near Rosthern, about 80 miles southwest of the indigenous community. They said he experienced medical distress shortly after his arrest. He was taken to a hospital where he died.

The suspected Canadian stabber died in custody, police said

The victims of the attacks were between 23 and 78 years old. All but one were from the James Smith Cree Nation.

Separately, the Parole Board of Canada and the Correctional Service of Canada announced on Thursday that they would establish a “national panel” to investigate the circumstances of Myles Sanderson’s release from federal custody.

Sanderson had 59 convictions as an adult and was serving a four-year and four-month sentence on assault and robbery charges, according to Parole Board of Canada records.

He was legally released in August 2021. Under Canadian law, some federal offenders who have served two-thirds of their sentence must be released from prison and placed under custodial custody in their communities.

Myles Sanderson’s statutory release was annulled in November after he was dishonest with his probation officer for breaching his terms. That decision was overturned in February and he was released. In May he failed to report to his parole officer and was declared “unlawfully at liberty”.

Family members celebrate loved ones, describe horrors of stabbings

The Saskatchewan chief medical examiner has ordered two public inquiries into the attack, including into the circumstances of Myles Sanderson’s death. He said the results of the “very preliminary autopsy” show he did not die from blunt force trauma.

Damien Sanderson’s wife Skye told Global News that she called the police to report him and his brother the day before the shooting after Damien took their car. She claimed police returned her car that night but did not conduct a full search of the brothers.

The RCMP has largely refused to provide updates on its investigation, saying it will not be able to reveal any details before the coroner’s investigation begins next year.

But on Thursday Blackmore said the RCMP received a call about a stolen car on the James Smith Cree Nation the day before the attack and later found it outside an apartment building on the reservation. She said officers searched the home and asked three of the men inside for their identities.

Blackmore said the investigation found Damien Sanderson, who was wanted for assault, gave officers a false name. She said the photo police have of him is out of date.

Blackmore said the brothers had been selling drugs in the community the day before the shooting and had been involved in three violent altercations. She said none of these incidents were reported to police before the mass killings.

Blackmore said the chief medical examiner was aware that she was providing the update.

“We felt it was important to address some of this information to balance the interest of both the family and the victims as they work to heal this incident…as well as information for the public to have answers to the questions raised.” ” She said.

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An investigation by the “New York Times” traces the last days of the doctor, who informed his colleagues in Wuhan about the danger of the new corona virus. The regime tried to silence him before making him a national hero.

“When I saw him around 9pm on February 6th [2020]Li Wenliang was already dead. […] We had to resuscitate him because the hospital authorities asked us to.” In its investigation, The Last Days of the Doctor China Tried to Silence, The New York Times chronicles the last few weeks of Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist working at the central hospital from Wuhan was working when Covid-19 hit China. The testimony of one of his colleagues and the documents obtained by the American daily newspaper shed a damning new light on the Chinese authorities’ management of the early days of the pandemic.

In early December 2019, the press in Wuhan, a major university and industrial city, reported that 27 people were carriers of an unknown lung infection. On December 30, 2019, a veteran doctor, Ai Wen, received laboratory tests that concluded that this disease had similar characteristics to Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), an epidemic that traumatized the country in 2003 and claimed 800 lives worldwide would have . Ai Wen takes a picture of the report at…

After Hurricane Ian, many residents of a Florida island are without power and other resources for days while waiting for the only bridge to the mainland to be repaired.

Pine Island, the largest of the barrier islands off Florida’s Gulf Coast, was largely cut off from the outside world after Ian severely damaged its causeway and made its towns accessible only by boat or plane.

“As a community, we feel that when we leave the island, no one is going to address the issue of repairing our road in and out,” Pine Island resident Leslie Arias said as a small boat hit the water supplied and other basic supplies. .

A week after the Category 4 storm hit Southwest Florida, the full extent of its destruction is still unclear. Utility workers were still working to restore power as of Wednesday, and rescue workers were searching for people who may still be trapped in flooded or damaged homes as the number of hurricane-related deaths rose to 84.

At least 75 people have died in Florida, five in North Carolina, three in Cuba and one in Virginia since Ian landed on the West Indies on September 27, a day before reaching Florida’s Gulf Coast. After moving northeast into the Atlantic, the hurricane made landfall again in South Carolina and from there in the mid-Atlantic states.

There have been fatalities in car crashes, drownings and accidents. A man drowned after being pinned under a vehicle. Another was trapped trying to climb out of a window. And a woman died after being knocked out by a gust of wind while smoking outside her home as the storm approached, authorities said.

In Lee County, Florida, which was hardest hit, the 45 people killed were over 50 years old.

President Joe Biden was scheduled to visit Fort Myers Wednesday in an area particularly devastated by winds and storm surges.

Many ships, including large yachts, were washed inland, far from their docks. Homes and businesses lie in ruins with broken windows surrounded by mud and debris.

The Biden administration said the president has made additional disaster relief available to Florida, including debris removal and emergency preparedness response.

Restoring power has become a priority, but access for cars from the barrier islands to the mainland is also a priority. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said a temporary bridge to Pine Island should be completed by the end of the week.

Miss USA has been rocked by a cheating scandal that has claimed this year’s pageant has been fixated on Miss Texas winning.

R’Bonney Gabriel – the first Asian and Filipino American to win – was crowned with the coveted title on Monday night, but she celebrated alone as almost all the beauty queens stormed off the stage after their coronation.

Normally, all participants remain on stage during and after the coronation to celebrate the young woman’s victory.

But others say Gabriel was selected as the winner. They have cited their trip to a plastic surgery spa offering a key chunk of the prize nine weeks before winning as evidence.

This clinic uploaded a glossy photo of Gabriel’s visit hours after their victory, raising the suspicion that they had known all along that she would be crowned. None of the other contestants are known to have visited them or been filmed for their own promotion should they win.

Gabriel’s proximity to Miss USA director Crystle Stewart also caused trouble among the rivals. Stewart, herself a past winner, was filmed doing Gabriel’s hair weeks before the win.

Miss Montana, Heather Lee O’Keefe, took to TikTok to outline the cheating allegations.

She said, “Most of the Miss USA candidates have a strong belief that Miss Texas USA is preferred and we have the receipts to prove it,” she said in a TikTok video.

“We’re putting our titles on the line, putting our reputation on the line,” O’Keefe said in an Instagram Live on Wednesday. “That’s how strong we feel when it comes to believing in what’s right and standing up for it.

“A lot of us have even said we’re willing to give up our titles to take this stand because we’re so serious about it.”

The coronation of Miss Texas R’Bonney Gabriel on Monday caused a major uproar at the Miss USA pageant amid rumors that she was the preselected winner and that the pageant was being rigged

Gabriel was the first Asian and Filipino American to win the Miss USA pageant

Miss Montana Heather Lee O’Keefe has been vocal about alleged favoritism Miss Texas has reportedly received. She came forward to say she has nothing against Gabriel

O’Keefe also announced that the Class of 2021 had filed a lawsuit against the organizers, but didn’t reveal what it was about.

has reached out to Miss USA for comment.

Among the allegations that have raised the greatest suspicion are…

Losers broke with convention and stormed off the stage in front of the cameras shortly after R’Bonney Gabriel’s coronation

The contestants were on stage when Gabriel was crowned, but didn’t stay long. When the credits rolled, they left the stage. O’Keefe and former Miss USA contestant Jasmine Jones said it was strange and “unprecedented” that the women had left the stage

The other contestants can be seen exiting the stage before Gabriel had finished walking around the stage after the coronation. O’Keefe said the women, including herself, were “doing what we thought was right” at the moment. Usually the runners-up stand there with big grins and politely clap for the winner

Speculation began to simmer as the contestants began to leave the stage while the credits rolled, leaving Gabriel to celebrate all alone.

Usually, runners-up stand up with a forced smile and clapping as the credits roll – but there were no such pleasantries at the end of this year’s pageant.

Former Miss USA contestant Jasmine Jones, who has been in the pageant for 10 years, claimed it was “obvious” the competition had been rigged as the women began to leave the stage. In every competition you’ve ever been in, the production manager tells you to stay on the stage until it’s done, you stand there and clap.

“In the background, girls were literally clapping [weakly] and they began to leave the stage before she even turned to receive her congratulatory hugs from other contestants.

“Before she was even halfway down the runway for her crowning moment, the contestants exited the stage behind her.”

She said it was a “big sign” that “something was wrong.”

In an Instagram Live on Wednesday, O’Keefe agreed that an early exit was “unprecedented” and “never happened before.”

The beauty queen claimed it was “not planned” and that it wasn’t done because of “bitter” feelings.

“We all did what we thought was right at the moment,” she said during Wednesday’s live broadcast. “We are a class of Division I athletes, Harvard graduates, lawyers, doctors, scientists and people who fought for our citizenship in this country.

“We’re the furthest from bad losers.”

Both women came out and said they had nothing against Gabriel.

“Nothing against Texas as a person, I really think she could have won fairly and honestly but unfortunately all this drama spoiled her win. But there’s just too much evidence of favoritism to let this go unnoticed,” O’Keefe said on social media.

The winner visited a plastic surgery clinic that is offering a portion of the prize BEFORE the finals – with a central clip showing her visit just hours after being named the winner

Gabriel was featured in a video sponsored by NIZUC Spas less than 24 hours after her coronation and seemed delighted with her award

The spa showed the beauty queen having a relaxing treatment, which O’Keefe says took place “nine weeks” before the video was released

In another seemingly suspicious move, O’Keefe pointed out that less than 24 hours after the coronation, NIZUC Resort & Spa posted a video of Gabriel enjoying an all-inclusive spa – which is included in her rate.

O’Keefe claimed it was a clear indication of “favouritism” and that the trip took place “nine weeks ago”, well before Monday night’s coronation.

“@MissUSA was crowned less than 24 hours ago but she’s already got her sponsored vacation at @NIZUCResort,” the blonde bombshell wrote on Instagram. ‘Are you kidding me? I thought you were right, but that’s just embarrassing at this point.’

In another turn of events, one of the Miss USA pageant judges was reportedly the founder of MIA Beaute – which is affiliated with NIZUC.

The founder also reportedly posted a photo of Miss Texas on his Instagram story, which further stirred up the rumor mill.

“Since Miss Texas was crowned a few months ago, the Miss USA organization has favored her through her businesses, which are also all owned by the same woman,” O’Keefe said.

The tournament president has close ties with Gabriel and is said to have done her hair weeks before the tournament and helped coach Gabriel for the competition

She also shared a photo of Miss USA director Crystle Stewart (pictured in black) doing Gabriel’s hair before the pageant

O’Keefe also shared a photo of Crystle Stewart, one of the Miss USA organizers, doing Gabriel’s hair backstage.

The two look quite close and comfortable as Gabriel sits in a white asymmetric top while Stewart pulls the woman’s hair into a tight ponytail.

Stewart also runs a pageant coaching business called Miss Academy, which Gabriel reportedly attended before the coronation, O’Keefe claimed.

Miss Texas was also reportedly the “only” featured on the official Miss USA page, a move O’Keefe said “no other candidate in the state has made.”

“And then they posted a public apology,” she said. “Don’t tell me you can’t see [favoritism].’

She also claimed that many contestants felt the need to spend their own money on Miss Academy classes to “feel like they had a chance.”

“A lot of girls felt like they had to work with Miss Academy to feel like they had a chance to do well at Miss USA,” she said on the livestream. “Which I find really unfortunate.”

She also called all the Miss USA organizers who watch her videos but remain silent. “Silence is compliance,” she said. “When will you speak up?”

Tuition ranges from $2,500 to $1,400, according to O’Keefe, with $500 a la carte courses also available.

‘It is a lot of money, [that’s] that’s the point I’m trying to make,” she said. “They really made us believe that in order to do well at Miss USA we had to go to Miss Academy to take those lessons from them – at least that’s how many of us felt.

O’Keefe has taken some of the online courses offered by Miss Academy.

Miss Montana also slammed the organizers, sponsors and judges on her Instagram Stories, saying: “Lol @ all the sponsors, judges, staff etc who are watching my stories and videos. See you soon. When will you speak up?

“Silence is docility.”