SaskatoonPriscilla Tootoosis-Iron says the people involved in her son’s killing will answer for what they did — whether in court or to a higher power.Priscilla Tootoosis-Iron travels to Saskatoon for court appearances of 2 accused in Timothy Tootoosis’s deathHannah Spray · CBC News · Posted: Nov 24, 2025 4:46 PM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Priscilla Tootoosis-Iron travelled to Saskatoon on Monday to see the court appearances for two of the people accused in the death of her son Timothy Tootoosis. (Travis Reddaway/CBC)Priscilla Tootoosis-Iron says she has known for many months that there’s a long list of people allegedly involved in killing her son.Now that their names are coming out as police lay charges, she wants them to know that she’ll be in court to watch them and they will answer for what they did — whether in court or to a higher power.”There’s a very sacred, powerful law, and that is, the moment that my son took his last breath, you made that choice. You and your family, for generations, will suffer the repercussions of the natural law,” she said.Police found Timothy Tootoosis’s body in a home in the 1700 block of 22nd Street West on Dec. 18, 2024. He was 30 years old.So far, seven people — Emory Aubichon, Destini Gardypie, Michael Landry, Donovan Lemstra, Michael McCallum, Vernon Peequaquat and Roderick Rabbitskin — are charged with first-degree murder.One person, Nakita Tootoosis, is also charged with manslaughter. Tootoosis-Iron, who is a teacher at Poundmaker Cree Nation west of North Battleford, Sask., said Nakita is a cousin.”We all lived in Poundmaker. Her and her siblings, my sons all went to the same school. I taught in that school,” Tootoosis-Iron said in an interview. “You know, even back home, talking to other people and other relatives, they’re just blown away. You know, like what happened?”Timothy Tootoosis was 30 years old when he was killed in Saskatoon. His body was found by police in a home in the 1700 block of 22nd Street West on Dec. 18, 2024. (Submitted by Priscilla Tootoosis-Iron)Nakita Tootoosis had a court appearance in Saskatoon on Monday, and Tootoosis-Iron made the two-hour drive to the city to see the case get adjourned to Tuesday to possibly set a date for a bail hearing.The other accused in court on Monday, in a different courtroom, was Gardypie, whose case was adjourned to Dec. 9. Tootoosis-Iron was there, too.”I don’t even know how, as even a mother, as mothers, one could even do that to somebody else’s child and be a part of it,” she said.Tootoosis-Iron said her son was “down the rabbit hole” with his addictions when he died. Her understanding is that Timothy was lured to the house and killed, and his body was dismembered. Timothy Tootoosis’s body was found by police inside this house on 22nd Street West in Saskatoon. (Dan Zakreski/CBC)”I wasn’t even able to braid my baby’s hair at the funeral,” she said. “We had to have a closed casket. I’m just grateful to my Creator that I was able to bury my son in the traditional way that we do.”She said she draws on her Cree culture for strength. Whatever happens in the judicial system, she knows everyone who was involved, whether they’ve been charged yet or not, will answer to the Creator, who sees everything.”They have to walk their path and whatever comes out of it in the court system, so be it,” Tootoosis-Iron said. “But I know for a fact natural law will not be adjourned.”ABOUT THE AUTHORHannah Spray is a reporter and editor for CBC Saskatoon. She began her journalism career in newspapers, first in her hometown of Meadow Lake, Sask., moving on to Fort St. John, B.C., and then to the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. With files from Dan Zakreski
Accused murderers have to ‘walk their path’ as justice unfolds, says victim’s mother
