Two teen girls among the wounded in Saskatoon weekend stabbings

From Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, four people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Published Jun 10, 2024  •  Last updated 9 hours ago  •  2 minute read

Saskatoon police vehicle Photo by Thia James /Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Saskatoon police say four stabbing attacks took place throughout the city over the weekend, some of which left teens in hospital.

On Friday evening, police say an 18-year-old woman and her friend were walking downtown near the river when they were attacked. The friends said their assailants were two women, dressed in black and carrying a hatchet.

The 18-year-old was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

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Then, on Saturday evening, police were called to an assault in progress on Queen Street, near City Hospital. A 16-year-old girl said she was approached by two women who “began stabbing and beating her,” police said.

Police dogs were used to track down the girl’s bag, which police said “had been discarded nearby,” and also led officers to a nearby home, where they arrested one of the women they suspect was involved in the attack.

Police said they were still searching for the second suspect, and that “this incident is not believed to have been random in nature.”

The injured girl was also taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

On Sunday afternoon, officers were again called downtown after a 60-year-old man was stabbed.

Police said surveillance video from the area showed a suspect who looked to be in his 30s, 5’10” tall, with a goatee and a mohawk-style haircut, wearing a black hoodie with a graffiti print.

The man was also taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and police are asking anyone with information about this stabbing to contact them or Crime Stoppers.

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Finally, later that afternoon, police said they found a fourth stabbing victim outside a house in the Westmount neighbourhood, near Scott Park.

The 36-year-old man was taken to hospital, with an injury police said was not life-threatening.

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