Man beheaded on bus to Winnipeg

p3ps1c0la · Jul 31, 2008

BRANDON, MAN. - A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence.

The incident occurred on a bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg just before 10 p.m. Wednesday.

A man of about 18 who was sleeping with headphones on was attacked by his seat mate, according to the man who sat in front of them.

RCMP officers investigate a 'major incident' that occured on a Greyhound bus Thursday morning about 18 kilometres west of Portage La Prairie, Man. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)

Horrific Manitoba bus attack

Passenger beheaded by man weiling large knife on Greyhound bus, while others slept

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Eye-witness accounts of bus slaying

He was stabbed repeatedly with a large hunting knife, sending blood spraying across the interior of the bus. The driver quickly pulled over and passengers fled out the front door.

The attacker then sawed off the victim's head and carried it to the front of the bus.

The two did not apparently know one another. The victim boarded the bus in Edmonton, one witness said, and the attacker boarded in Manitoba.

A standoff with police ensued until about 1 a.m. local time.

A 40-year-old man was taken into custody.

Garnet Caton, 26, was sitting in the seat in front of the attacker.

"I was just reading a book and all of a sudden I heard a guy screaming. I turned around and the guy sitting right beside me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife," he said.

"Right in the throat. Repeatedly."

The man wielding the knife had a shaved head and was wearing sunglasses, he said.

"He looked totally calm. He didn't say a word I don't think to anybody on the bus ... nothing. Just totally calm."

Mr. Caton said most passengers were sleeping at the time and didn't realize what was happening.

"I screamed 'stop the bus!' ... Everybody got the hell off, and people at the front of the bus didn't really understand what was going on. It almost turned into a trample scene there, everybody trying to get off the bus. But the guy didn't care at all. He wasn't concerned with anybody but the guy he was stabbing.

"The guy was totally calm. When he brought the head he looked at us and dropped it. It was like he was having a day at the beach. He couldn't be bothered by anything else."

Passenger Cody Olmstead from Kentville, N.S., said he had just smoked a cigarette with the victim at the last stop in Brandon. He said he believed the victim had gotten on the bus in Edmonton.

"We just left the town of Brandon and we were watching Zorro and the next thing I know I hear somebody scream and I look back and there's some big guy holding this little fellow up between the bathroom door and the seat," Mr. Olmstead told CBC News.

After passengers fled the bus and braced the door to keep the attacker inside, he returned with the victim's head, Mr. Olmstead said.

"His hand come out the door with the knife," he said. "He went back on the bus and then they [passengers] brace the door and he come back standing in the doorway with the head, looked at them, dropped the head, went back and started cutting buddy back up."

As night fell and police surrounded the bus, the suspect taunted police officers, Mr. Olmstead said.

"He comes up and he picks the head up and he's waving it in the window. I just smoked a cigarette with this man [the victim] earlier, the head, and he's shaking it back and forth at the window and it's ... intense right, it's sickening."
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Eye-witness accounts of bus slaying

Globe and Mail Update and Canadian Press

July 31, 2008 at 12:45 PM EDT

Cody Olmstead

I was sitting on the bus and we just left the town of Brandon and we were watching Zorro and the next thing I know I hear somebody scream and I look back and there's some big guy holding this little fellow up between the bathroom door and the seat. And he was moving. It kind of looked like a fight but somebody said a knife, so we all run off the bus – he was getting stabbed. So I'm making sure everybody's okay right outside and these other guys are containing the door. Then they went back on the bus and come off the bus and told everybody to get back 'cause they thought he was coming out. His hand come out the door with the knife, looked like it was trying to cut their... He went back on the bus and then they brace the door and he come back standing in the doorway with the head, looked at them, dropped the head, went back and started cutting buddy back up.

So they make us leave and go up by the tractor trailer and I'm standing by the tractor trailer and it's starting to get dark and the cops are there and he comes up and he picks the head up and he's waving it in the window. I just smoked a cigarette with this man [the victim] earlier, the head, and he's shaking it back and forth at the window and it's ... intense right, it's sickening.

He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn't say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal. He had sunglasses on. He sat down. And then, about a half an hour later, we heard this blood-curdling scream and turned around and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly, repeatedly, like, I dunno, must have been 40, 50 times in the neck and in the chest area. When he was attacking him, he was calm as like, it was like he was at the beach. He (was) totally calm, he didn't say anything. There was no rage or, or anything. He was just like a robot stabbing the guy.

We exited the bus. Everybody got off the bus. But a few of us, me and the trucker and one of the Greyhound drivers went back on the bus to go see what was going on and that's when we saw ... he had the guy on the ground, he was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him.

That trucker ... he had a crowbar and we ran and got a hammer and stuff. Me and the other bus driver, there, tried to guard the door; put our bodies up against the door and, you know, waiting for him to come out and whatnot.

And he went back and brought the head to the front and pretty much, you know, displayed it to us like that and then dropped it on the ground in front of us. Very calmly, all very calmly, he was wearing sunglasses and like, you know, it was no big deal to him.
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Natsu · Jul 31, 2008

wow, thats messed up :(

The_Jelly · Jul 31, 2008

Scary...you don't really expect that kind of stuff over there.

wysandman · Jul 31, 2008

Heard this on the radio when I woke, this world is so fucked up.

khaotic · Jul 31, 2008

Pretty disturbing crime...

KT · Jul 31, 2008

This is fucking sick.. and I was planning to take Greyhound when I go home from college too.. never fucking mind!

xmichelly · Aug 1, 2008

what's really scary is that he was so calm ...

ProjectD · Aug 1, 2008

some ppl truly got issues

Phil · Aug 1, 2008

lol i would expect this kinda stuff to happen in Japan , but ......... lol its not just the sleazy mexicans ppl should avoid on the bus, its also the people who cut ppl's heads off you should look out for

hadouken · Aug 1, 2008

damn i never want to sit in the back of a bus again ever

Phil · Aug 1, 2008

"We just left the town of Brandon and we were watching Zorro and the next thing I know I hear somebody scream and I look back and there's some big guy holding this little fellow up between the bathroom door and the seat," Mr. Olmstead told CBC News.

would this have been the cause of the beheading? Zorro 上身？

kdotc · Aug 1, 2008

the act of the devillll.,this is just fuked up

BigM · Aug 1, 2008

Extremely disturbing.

mr_evolution · Aug 1, 2008

That is just plain horrible

Phil · Aug 1, 2008

lol, i bet this guy came out of the Asylum, lol , hes a freakin Lunatic....... i felt sorry for the guy who had his head choppedoff, he was just trying to enjoy his music on the bus and he dies, lol maybe the victim had bad taste in music

kdotc · Aug 1, 2008

SHITT!! the guy is chinese!! Vince Weiguang Li

ralphrepo · Aug 1, 2008

kdotc said: ↑

SHITT!! the guy is chinese!! Vince Weiguang Li
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Sort of gives you the ethnic willies doesn't it? It makes Asians look loony and Chinese in particular looked fucked up.

Bus beheading suspect in court
A man suspected of beheading a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada has appeared in court in Manitoba charged with the killing.

Vince Weiguang Li, 40, is accused of second-degree murder. The motive for the attack is not known. Mr Li said nothing in court but nodded when asked if he was exercising his right to remain silent. Police have not yet formally identified the victim but friends have named him as 22-year old Tim McLean. Mr Li, of Edmonton, Alberta, remained silent throughout the hearing in Portage la Prairie. Police have offered no motive for the attack and prosecutors have requested a psychiatric assessment. Mr Li will appear in court again on Tuesday after having an opportunity to speak to a lawyer.

Tributes

Eyewitnesses on board the bus, which was travelling through a desolate stretch of Canada's vast prairies, said the attacker stabbed the person sitting next to him 50 or 60 times. He then severed his head with a large knife, reportedly brandishing the head to terrified passengers. Friends of Mr McLean have paid tribute to him.
William Caron, whose brother was due to meet Mr McLean from the bus, told the Canadian Press that he had always tried to avoid trouble. "All the time I've known Tim, he's never been the type of guy to get into a fight. He always kept to himself when there's strangers around." One friend told broadcaster CBC that Mr McLean was loved by many and called him a "ladies man". In an e-mail to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a friend of Mr McLean, Jossie Kehler, told of her sadness. "He has a lot of friends and they are all very upset he's gone, and they would like to say they miss him and he will always be in their hearts," she wrote.
Newly-established Facebook groups and Mr McLean's Myspace page have filled with messages of support for the victim's family after news of the horrific killing. On Facebook, news of the killing led to hundreds of friends and well-wishers joining a tribute group.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7538398.stm
Published: 2008/08/01 21:19:32 GMT
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Remember the Virginia Tech killer? The Asian community at large was stung when that Korean sicko blasted fellow students and then killed himself in a Copy Cat Columbine shooting. The only thing that I remember most of my Chinese friends and relatives saying then was, "well, thank goodness he wasn't Chinese..." Words like that have a way of coming back to haunt you, if you know what I mean. :tear:

Ralph

Phoenix · Aug 1, 2008

shiieeet....
thats messed up...
we just gota watch out i guess...

dvd · Aug 1, 2008

pretty disturbing what is more disturbing is the othe people just ran away and did not try and disarm the guy.

dragong87 · Aug 2, 2008

its not a movie... the first thing that pops into most peoples head when they see someone stabbing a guy with a huge jknife is run... not stay.. lol

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