‘Why?’ Mother and Child Fatally Stabbed Outside Edmonton School, Police Shoot Suspect

Feathers are placed on a pole for a woman and her 11-year-old child, who were stabbed and killed outside Crawford Plains School, in Edmonton on May 6, 2023. The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

Dozens of people gathered Saturday around a memorial of flowers and stuffed animals in a park as indigenous drummers sang in honour of a slain mother and her 11-year-old.

Family members identified the victims of the Friday afternoon attack outside an elementary school as Carolann Robillard, 35, and Sarah Miller, who had started using the first name Jayden.