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.

  • Poutinetown
    31·
    1 month ago

    Crazy we never heard about him in history classes then.

    • Hootz
      4·
      1 month 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·
        1 month ago

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

        • ebc
          2·
          1 month ago

          It’s taught in Québec.

          • girlfreddyOP
            21·
            1 month ago

            Quebec is often smarter than the rest of Canada.

    • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      1 month 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·
      1 month 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.