Pickton appears on a video link to B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C., in a Wednesday, May 25, 2005, courtroom sketch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jane Wolsack

By Canadian Press

Serial killer Robert Pickton dies following prison assault

May 31, 2024 | 2:20 PM

Serial killer Robert Pickton has died after he was assaulted in prison earlier this month, Quebec provincial police and Correctional Service Canada said Friday.

The correctional service said Pickton, an inmate at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, died on Friday at the age of 74.

Pickton’s next of kin have been notified as well as victims who had registered to be told, it said.

An investigation is underway into the May 19 assault that involved another inmate.

Quebec provincial police spokesman Frédéric Deshaies said Pickton died “in the last few hours.”

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He said police continue to investigate the assault that led to Pickton’s death, and the 51-year-old suspect is in custody.