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By the time Shane Sakchekapo steps up to throw a dart in any given match, he’s already calculated in his head the potential targets and scores needed to win.

It’s an oft-used cliché with smaller towns, but in Manitoba’s lakeside community of Hollow Water First Nation, everyone knows everyone, says rural band councillor Maurice Williams.

That’s why after a stabbing rampage this week left a woman and the suspect, her brother, dead, along with seven other people seriously injured in the tight-knit area, everyone is now in mourning.

A woman has been killed and the suspect, her brother, is dead after multiple stabbings in Hollow Water First Nation, a small Manitoba community on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg.

At least seven people remain in hospital with serious injuries, Manitoba RCMP said late Thursday afternoon. The suspect, Tyrone Simard, 26, knew all of the victims. He was killed after allegedly fleeing from the area in a stolen vehicle, succumbing to his injuries from a collision with a police cruiser.

Several Indigenous leaders from Alberta are warning the Assembly of First Nations not to step on individual First Nations’ authority, treaty rights and jurisdiction to determine the outcome of national infrastructure projects.

In a letter dated Tuesday and addressed to chiefs attending the AFN’s national assembly, the Alberta chiefs say resolutions proposed by some of their colleagues present “significant risks” to their jurisdiction.