Man charged after passenger is stabbed and beheaded on bus in Canada
Friday, 1 August 2008
Victim: Tim McLean Jr shown in a photograph from his MySpace page
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A 40-year-old man is being questioned following a horrific attack in which a passenger was stabbed and decapitated on a bus in Canada yesterday.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said today that they have charged Vince Weiguang Li from Edmonton with second-degree murder.
Police have not confirmed the identity of the victim but friends have said it was Tim McLean Jr, 22, of Winnipeg.
Li appeared at the Manitoba provincial court in Portage la Prairie around 10 am CT without a lawyer. The suspect refused to speak and would only acknowledge the judge with a nod of the head.
The man was attacked as the Greyhound bus traveled across a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.
Witnesses say the victim was sleeping with headphones on when he was stabbed 40 or 50 times by the man sitting next to him.
The attacker then severed the victim's head with a large hunting knife while other passengers scrambled to flee the scene.
A witness said the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off".
Passenger Garnet Caton, 26, said: "When he was attacking him, he was calm. There was no rage or, or anything. He was just like a robot.
"The victim didn't do anything to provoke the guy. The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off.
"Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock . . . everybody was running, screaming, off the bus."
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After the bus pulled over and the terrified passengers fled, passengers said the attacker began taunting those outside with the victim's head.
Using makeshift weapons the driver and a passing trucker prevented the man from leaving the bus until the police arrived on the scene.
Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver were on the bus. The passengers were taken away to be interviewed by police and to stay overnight at a hotel.
In a statement Candian police said: "The RCMP are mindful of the range of emotions being experienced by the family of the deceased over the loss of their loved one in such a horrific incident. Our thoughts are with them."
Friday, 1 August 2008
Victim: Tim McLean Jr shown in a photograph from his MySpace page
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A 40-year-old man is being questioned following a horrific attack in which a passenger was stabbed and decapitated on a bus in Canada yesterday.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said today that they have charged Vince Weiguang Li from Edmonton with second-degree murder.
Police have not confirmed the identity of the victim but friends have said it was Tim McLean Jr, 22, of Winnipeg.
Li appeared at the Manitoba provincial court in Portage la Prairie around 10 am CT without a lawyer. The suspect refused to speak and would only acknowledge the judge with a nod of the head.
The man was attacked as the Greyhound bus traveled across a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.
Witnesses say the victim was sleeping with headphones on when he was stabbed 40 or 50 times by the man sitting next to him.
The attacker then severed the victim's head with a large hunting knife while other passengers scrambled to flee the scene.
A witness said the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off".
Passenger Garnet Caton, 26, said: "When he was attacking him, he was calm. There was no rage or, or anything. He was just like a robot.
"The victim didn't do anything to provoke the guy. The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off.
"Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock . . . everybody was running, screaming, off the bus."
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<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mWQLNs7FKJI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object></preform> </p> Another passenger, said the man "dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body."
After the bus pulled over and the terrified passengers fled, passengers said the attacker began taunting those outside with the victim's head.
Using makeshift weapons the driver and a passing trucker prevented the man from leaving the bus until the police arrived on the scene.
Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver were on the bus. The passengers were taken away to be interviewed by police and to stay overnight at a hotel.
In a statement Candian police said: "The RCMP are mindful of the range of emotions being experienced by the family of the deceased over the loss of their loved one in such a horrific incident. Our thoughts are with them."
