SaskatchewanMadison Paddy-Jimmy, 25, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of one of three men who died on a farm west of Turtleford on Wednesday. Madison Paddy-Jimmy to appear in Lloydminster provincial court Nov. 13Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.RCMP Insp. Ashley St Germaine speaks to the media about three homicides that happened on Wednesday, Nov. 5, near Turtleford, Sask. (CBC News)A 25-year-old woman charged with killing one of three men who died of gunshot wounds on a farm west of Turtleford, Sask., will be back in court on Nov. 13.Madison Paddy-Jimmy, from Thunderchild First Nation, appeared in North Battleford provincial court on Friday, charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tonio Cantell, 28, from Island Lake First Nation, an RCMP news release said.Her next court appearance will be in Lloydminster. In the interim, she must not contact five individuals named on her court documents.Sources confirmed to CBC that Cantell and the other two men died Wednesday on the farm 16 kilometres west of Turtleford, about 200 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon. Police said one of the other two dead men is a 46-year-old man from Turtleford, and they are working to identify the other man. Sources said the property was rented to one of the victims.Police said Paddy-Jimmy was arrested Wednesday in Turtleford. All three victims died of gunshot wounds and were victims of homicide, but only one murder charge has been laid, police said.Investigators seized multiple guns at the property, the news release said, and they don’t believe there are any additional suspects or victims.”No further identifying details will be provided for the two other males as the RCMP is not currently seeking the public’s assistance to further this investigation,” the news release said.RCMP Insp. Ashley St Germaine met with reporters Friday. She provided no new information about what happened at Turtleford beyond what was already in the news release.But she added RCMP major crime investigators are dealing with six homicides since the start of November.WATCH | RCMP investigating 6 homicides since beginning of November:RCMP investigating 6 deaths since start of November, including 3 near Turtleford, Sask.Saskatchewan RCMP say there have been six suspicious deaths in the province during the first week of November. Three of those deaths were in a rural area near Turtleford, while the others took place in La Ronge, the Nipawin area and Whitewood.In addition to the three at Turtleford, there was a death in La Ronge on Sunday, another on Wednesday in the Nipawin area and then another Thursday in Whitewood.In the La Ronge case, 26-year-old Keyland McLeod is charged with the second-degree murder of Melissa Charles, 18. In the Nipawin-area case, 68-year-old Kevin Searcy is charged with second-degree murder of his spouse, Diane Searcy, 69, at their home in the small community of Snowden.In the Whitewood case, a male youth is charged with first-degree murder of an adult male, who police did not name.ABOUT THE AUTHORChris Edwards is a reporter at CBC Saskatchewan. Before entering journalism, he worked in the tech industry.
Sask. woman charged with killing 1 of 3 men who died of gunshot wounds at rural property
