Saskatoon federal judge robbed, seriously assaulted in downtown carjacking

Dan Zakreski · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 03, 2025 6:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A 30-year-old antheral is facing a raft of charges aft a national justice successful Saskatoon was earnestly assaulted Tuesday successful a downtown carjacking.

Brandon Wyatt Burns, from Keeseekoose First Nation, faces charges that include robbery and battle causing bodily harm. 

He is besides charged with robbery aft the Fas Gas Station connected Highway 5, connected the eastbound outskirts of the city, was held up aboriginal the aforesaid morning.

Burns is besides charged with stealing a 2nd a truck, assaulting the operator with a weapon, starring RCMP connected a high-speed chase, trying to ram their cruisers and resisting arrest.

Officers yet arrested Burns, utilizing a stun weapon connected him, adjacent the municipality of Liberty, Sask., astir 140 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon.

Burns appeared successful provincial tribunal Thursday. When told helium would beryllium kept successful custody until a bail hearing, helium told Judge Brad Mitchell, "I should beryllium released connected bail present due to the fact that you guys assaulted maine yesterday."

The incidents that led to his apprehension started Tuesday greeting successful downtown Saskatoon, adjacent City Hall, erstwhile the national justice was parking and a antheral tried to bargain his truck. CBC is not naming the justice due to the fact that helium is simply a unfortunate of crime.

The 2 men fought, with the justice injured earnestly capable to beryllium hospitalized.

According to tribunal documents, the robber past held up the Fas Gas presumption astatine the junction of highways 5 and 41, and past headed east.

Humboldt RCMP got a study of the robbery soon earlier noon Tuesday, according to an RCMP quality release, and began an investigation.

They learned a antheral who was pulled implicit connected the broadside of Highway 5 successful his motortruck was approached by different man, who assaulted the idiosyncratic successful the motortruck with a weapon and past stole the vehicle, RCMP say.

The carjacker near the conveyance helium had been travelling successful astatine the scene, which constabulary accidental they determined had been reported arsenic stolen successful Saskatoon.

The injured antheral reported non-life threatening injuries to police, RCMP say.

Officers spotted the stolen motortruck again adjacent Watrous, astir 60 kilometres northbound of Liberty, and it sped off.

RCMP said the operator tried to ram cruisers and dodged a spike belt. When it yet stopped, the operator resisted apprehension and was subdued utilizing a stun gun, RCMP said.

History of violence

Parole Board of Canada documents amusement Burns has a important past of violence. He was fixed a situation condemnation of 4 years, 2 months when helium was 22 years old, aft pleading blameworthy to aggravated battle during a location invasion.

The committee deemed him unsafe capable that helium served his afloat situation sentence.

Before that, helium had been convicted of assaulting a three-year-old child. He besides has weapons convictions involving a knife, a stolen firearm, a samurai sword and a machete.

While successful prison, helium was progressive successful convulsive incidents including an inmate assault, a large disturbance and a situation riot.

"You look comfy and to instrumentality pridefulness successful your transgression lifestyle," the parole committee wrote.

"You deficiency empathy and remorse and are not funny successful making changes, astatine this time."

Burns is owed backmost successful provincial tribunal connected Friday.