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Three men have been charged with first degree murder in the killing of 30-year-old Timothy Tootoosis, whose body was found on Dec. 18, 2024 at a home the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood of Saskatoon.
Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said at the time the Guns and Gangs Unit and Tactical Support Unit were executing a search warrant at the home in the 1700 block of 22nd West.when they found his body. Tootoosis’s death was Saskatoon’s 15th homicide in 2024.
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All three men were also charged with offering an indignity to human remains and unlawful confinement and have appeared in court and been remanded in custody, police said in a news release on Nov. 14.
SPS said a 41-year-old man was arrested in Calgary on Nov. 6, and in Saskatoon a 40-year-old man was arrested on Nov. 12 and a 27-year-old man arrested on Nov. 13.
Timothy Tootoosis is pictured with his his grandma at Christmas. (Priscilla Tootoosis-Iron/submitted)
Priscilla Tootoosis-Iron, Tootoosis’s mother, told CKOM’s Mia Holowaychuk in a January 2025 interview her son was dismembered.
“His body was lying there. He was dismembered,” Tootoosis-Iron said. “It was done after he (had) already passed.”
“He was large, physically, so clearly they were doing that to dispose of his body.”
Tootoosis was the last murder victim recorded in Saskatoon in 2024. There have been eight murders in the city so far in 2025.
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