Teen killed, seven hurt in Canada mass stabbing
According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), officers were first called at 3:45 am after a tribal security guard reported an assault had taken place.
An 18-year-old woman was killed and seven others injured in a mass stabbing in a small indigenous community in Manitoba, Canada, in the early hours of Thursday.
Police confirmed that the suspect, identified as 26-year-old Tyrone Simard, also died after crashing into a patrol vehicle while fleeing the scene.
The attack happened in Hollow Water First Nation, a remote Anishinaabe community about 200 kilometers northeast of Winnipeg.
According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), officers were first called at 3:45 am after a tribal security guard reported an assault had taken place.
When police arrived, they discovered multiple crime scenes where victims had been stabbed.
Investigators said the woman who died was Simard’s sister. They added that the suspect was already known to police and that all the victims were familiar with each other in the tight-knit community.
As Simard attempted to flee in a stolen car, he collided head-on with a police cruiser. The officer involved, a female constable, suffered critical but non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover. "She stopped a man on a rampage," said Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, praising her actions.
The RCMP said they were still conducting door-to-door checks to ensure the community’s safety. “Our sincere condolences to everyone within the community of Hollow Water First Nation and to everyone who has been affected by this senseless act of violence,” the force said in a statement.
One of the injured, identified by relatives as Michael Raven, was stabbed in the lung while asleep in his home. His daughter Christy Williams told CBC that “the community is all shaken up from it. It is not something that happens in Hollow Water.”
The family of another victim said he had been woken in the middle of the night and stabbed in the torso.
Chief of Hollow Water First Nation Larry Barker became emotional as he addressed the tragedy, urging solidarity: “I ask the community to pray and support one another out there. The families were very close to me, and my deepest condolences to them.”
The stabbing occurred exactly three years after a separate mass attack in James Smith Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, where 11 people were killed and many more injured. In that case, the suspect died in police custody following a large-scale manhunt.
