QUEBEC — Serial killer Robert Pickton died Friday, two weeks after he was assaulted in prison.

Pickton, an inmate at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, was 74.

Correctional Service Canada said in a statement that Pickton’s next-of-kin were notified, as well as victims who registered to be told.

Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder but is suspected of killing dozens of women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.