ManitobaMembers of a Manitoba First Nation community say they must come together in the aftermath of a mass stabbing that left a woman dead and several others injured.Community must come together to support each other, find solutions, members sayArturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: Sep 05, 2025 9:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours agoRandy Ducharme, who’s lived in Hollow Water for more than 40 years, said the community must come together to support one another in the aftermath of a mass stabbing in the Manitoba First Nation Thursday. (CBC)Members of a Manitoba First Nation community say they must come together in the aftermath of a mass stabbing that left a woman dead and several others injured.The attacks on Hollow Water First Nation Thursday morning have left the tight-knit community about 160 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg in shock, residents like Randy Ducharme said one day after the fatal event.”It’s so heartbreaking that people have lost their lives. Young people,” Ducharme said. “Just lost for words, really — I guess like everybody else. And nobody knows what to make of it or what to think about it.… Just sadness.”Marina Simard, 18, was killed and seven other members of the community were injured in the attack.The suspect, 26-year-old Tyrone Simard, was Marina’s brother. He died after he crashed into an RCMP vehicle while attempting to flee the community in a stolen car. The officer in the RCMP vehicle was also seriously injured.Shared Health said Friday three of the victims were discharged from hospital Thursday, but four others remained hospitalized.LISTEN l Hollow Water residents rallying together in aftermath of mass stabbing, MLA says:As It HappensStabbing in Hollow Water First Nation impacts entire community, says MLAManitoba MLA Ian Bushie says he and his whole community are grieving after a mass stabbing in Hollow Water First Nation on Thursday. Police say a man killed his sister and injured seven others before dying in a highway crash with an RCMP cruiser. Bushie, Manitoba’s minister of natural resources and Indigenous futures, is the former chief of Hollow Water, where he continues to reside. He spoke to As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal.MLA Ian Bushie lives in Hollow Water. He said that like many others in the community of about 1,000 people, he has family connections to the victims and knew them personally.”We still have a lot of people that are still going to a hospital, including family, to be able to support them,” he told As it Happens Friday. “The victims are still out of community.… At the same time the community back home is rallying together to see how we can have those supports in place.”Bushie said the factors leading to the stabbing still need to be assessed, but that governments and First Nations groups should be working together to build mental health and addictions supports that could help prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future.”It’s not just community, it’s also outside agencies … that have reached out,” he said. “I think that’s something that’s very encouraging to see, and we know we have the support of not only just Indigenous communities but society in Manitoba at large.”WATCH | Mass stabbing suspect was out on bail: Court documents:Man who killed sister, injured 7 in Manitoba mass stabbing was out on bailCourt records show Tyrone Simard was out on bail when police say he stabbed multiple people on Hollow Water First Nation. The 26-year-old was charged with assault with a weapon and mischief for alleged incidents in June, then granted bail with conditions days later. One community member says he’s helping organize a protest in Hollow Water on Sunday, urging First Nation leadership to take the drug crisis seriously.Tyrone Simard had been charged with assault with a weapon and mischief earlier this summer. He’d been out on bail since June 12 with conditions, including an order not to contact his sister and other people.The conditions also imposed a curfew and an order not to possess weapons, and not to use alcohol or drugs. Court records say he suffered from alcoholism, and had very low cognitive functioning.Laurie Goosehead, a youth leader from Hollow Water, is helping plan out a protest Sunday calling on the First Nation’s leadership to do something about the drug issues in the community.”It’s hurting our youth. It’s tearing families apart,” he said. “We need to address the drugs issues and think about the long-term effect. It really needs to be done.”Goosehead, who was in Winnipeg Friday, said the protest will also be a chance for Hollow Water residents to express their feelings in the aftermath of the tragedy.”What happened this past week … took a big toll on us,” he said. “Our community needs to heal to where it was before.”Back in Hollow Water, Ducharme said everyone must come together to support one another.”It’s a helpless feeling because, yeah, you don’t know what to do,” he said.Hollow Water First Nation members trying to make sense of mass stabbingThe community of Hollow Water First Nation has few answers as they come to grips with a mass stabbing Thursday that killed an 18-year-old woman and injured seven other people in the community.With files from Felisha Adam, Rosanna Hempel, As It Happens and The Canadian Press
‘Just sadness’: Hollow Water residents trying to make sense of mass stabbing
