Convicted B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton is in critical condition and undergoing surgery after he was assaulted by another inmate in a Quebec prison on Sunday.

The Correctional Service Canada (CSC) confirmed in a statement Tuesday that Pickton was the victim of a “major assault” at the maximum-security Port-Cartier Institution.

Two sources, including one police source, told Radio-Canada that Pickton is between life and death.

Pickton was taken to a hospital for treatment and the assailant is in solitary confinement according to the Quebec provincial police, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), which is investigating.

  • sik0fewl
    10·
    6 months ago

    Well, more like 20th century. He was active from early 90s to 2002.

    • Poutinetown
      31·
      6 months ago

      Crazy we never heard about him in history classes then.

      • Hootz
        4·
        6 months ago

        Why would you? Pretty sure other than colonists my social studies didn’t talk about serial killers untill law class in grade 11

        • girlfreddyOP
          2·
          6 months ago

          Last I heard the history of the October Crisis wasn’t being taught either.

          • ebc
            2·
            6 months ago

            It’s taught in Québec.

            • girlfreddyOP
              21·
              6 months ago

              Quebec is often smarter than the rest of Canada.

      • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        6 months ago

        I grew up in the Vancouver area at that time, and was family friends with the family of one of the victims. No one even gave a shit at the time it was happening.

      • Muscar@discuss.online
        22·
        6 months ago

        What? Do you think there have ever been only like 4 serial killers in all of history and you learn about all of them in school? There have been thousands all over the world in just the past few decades.