The doctor in charge of providing the Postmortem Behavioral Analysis Report for Myles Sanderson suggests that the mass murderer had no intentions of overdosing on cocaine to end his life.
Dr. Matt Logan says Sanderson died with 10 times the lethal dose of cocaine in his body. What’s more, the cocaine was tested as 90 per cent pure.
Sanderson, the man who killed 11 people and injured 13 others on the James Smith Cree Nation in September of 2022, was a known drug user and dealer, and likely knew what kind of effect that amount of cocaine would have on his body.
However, Dr. Logan says if Myles had wanted to kill himself, he had many opportunities to do so, such as driving head-on into a vehicle when he was travelling against traffic on Highway 11 or pulling a weapon on police to have himself shot.
Although Sanderson had stated that he was ‘ready to die now’ during his arrest, Logan cites his reason for ingesting so much cocaine as nothing more than ‘death ambivalence’, a voluntary self-killing, doing so knowingly, recklessly, but not purposefully.
The doctor also believes Sanderson could have been on his way to Saskatoon to add another victim to his list on the day he died.
On September 7th, Sanderson was stopped and arrested along Highway 11 between Hague and Rosthern while he was driving south, likely toward Saskatoon. Logan says Sanderson had a record of physically abusing his former partner, Vanessa Burns, who happened to reside in Saskatoon at the time. Logan suggests that Sanderson might have had intentions of ‘completing his mission’, and paying Burns a visit.
To support this claim, Constable Bill Rowley stated previously that officers had found a knife in Sanderson’s vehicle at the time of his arrest.
After nearly four days of absorbing the testimonies of witnesses, the jury present at the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Sanderson must now decide whether his death was a suicide, or accidental. If proficient evidence was not provided, the jury can also rule that the means of Sanderson’s death is undetermined. The results are expected to be in by Thursday evening.
