Man Decapitated ‘Beheaded’ Aboard Greyhound Bus – Canada – Updates
A man aboard a Canada Greyhound bus was decapitated after being repeatedly stabbed b y another passenger. Police said Thursday they didn’t know what prompted a passenger on a Greyhound bus heading to Winnipeg to viciously attack the man sitting next to him.
Passengers said the man repeatedly stabbed his seat-mate before beheading him and carrying the victim’s head around the bus.
Shocked passengers described the horrific attack as something incomprehensible.
Victim and Assailant Identified
Police have not confirmed the identity of the man stabbed to death aboard a bus late Wednesday and beheaded, according to witness accounts, but friends have said it was Tim McLean Jr., 22, of Winnipeg. (Tim McLeans MySpace Page)
RCMP announced Friday morning that they have charged Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton with second-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear at the Manitoba provincial court in Portage la Prairie.
Face of Evil - Vince Weiguang Li
One moment, the quiet man near the back of the bus was minding his own business. The man hadn’t talked to anyone around him, and seemed to pay no attention to the younger fellow sitting next to him, who was listening to music on headphones.
The next moment, witnesses said, the older man stood up, still quiet, and repeatedly stabbed, then beheaded his younger victim.
“We heard this blood-curdling scream and turned around, and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly, like 40 or 50 times,” Garnet Caton said Thursday from a hotel in Brandon, Man., where he and other passengers had been taken to rest.
“There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy.”
Caton said the bus stopped and everyone scrambled to get out while the attacker started methodically carving up the victim’s body, not paying attention to anyone else.
Caton and the driver shut the bus door from the outside while they waited for police to arrive.
“We put our bodies up against the door, waiting for him to come out … and he went back and brought the head to the front and pretty much displayed it … and dropped it on the ground in front of us,” Caton said.
“All very calmly. He was wearing sunglasses. It was no big deal to him.”
Fellow passenger Cody Olmstead from Kentville, N.S., also recalled the chilling scene.
“The guy came to the front of the door with buddy’s head in his hands, decapitated. He dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body back up,” Olmstead said.
Live Police Radio Transmissions
Here’s a piece of information not making it into the MSM who are describing what Li did to the body only as “desecration”: Li ate some of his victim’s flesh.
From a police scanner recording of an officer at the scene describing events as they happened:
[Li is] at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it.
Listen below… (WARNING GRAPHIC)
More detailed account here
Caton said he heard a “blood-curdling scream” and turned around to see the attacker holding a large “Rambo” hunting knife above the victim, “continually stabbing him in the chest area.”
“He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times,” said Caton.
“Like, just everywhere, arms, legs, neck, chest, guts, wherever he could swing it, he got it,” said Olmstead.
“It looked kind of like a scuffle or an argument, you know, and then somebody’s, like, ‘Knife! Knife! Run!’ so I was running up the alleyway, slapping people telling them to get going, move, get off the bus. I got pushed over, some lady got pushed over, I was just making sure everybody was OK, and we all got off the bus,” said Olmstead
As panicked passengers fled the bus, “the attacker was over top of the victim … continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point,” Caton said.
Trio tried to check on victim
Caton, the driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene later boarded the vehicle to see if the victim was still alive.
“When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy’s head off and pretty much gutting him up,” said Caton.
The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.
When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.
“While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us,” said Caton.
“They did an awesome thing, holding him in there, because if not, what would have happened?” said Olmstead.
Video of Witnesses
Category: Homeland Security News
That has got to be the most chilling police scanner action I have ever heard.
This is a very sad, horrible thing. My heart goes out to those parents. I am also sad to hear the jabs at each others country. However I think the attitude world wide is: Its o.k. to bash Americans. There are normal down to earth people in the u.s. who love and have a heart. I put my self in the place of the murdered young man and I would say: “God please send some one to save my life” I would think as a mom and see that boy as my boy—-I have 5 sons. It would be scarey but if I saw this I probably spot a couple big guys and say lets get him—once he is down maybe others would follow. In Gods word he says to us that if we see someone being led to the slaughter that we are to try and save life. This isnt a u.s.—canada thing. There is evil in both countries.Didnt I see where a pig farmer murdered many fols in canada? We could go on and on bashing each other–that is cruel. Those poor family members
Yes, we are living in the end times. I am sorry that you do not see it…you may wish that it weren’t so, but it is.
they should have shot the bastard on the spot
i have one question……why did no one try to help the victim. everything i read is about how calm and robotic the attack was…which makes me think….hummmmmmmm grab somthing, anything and hit him over the head. knock him out..do somthing!!!!!
Oh the beauty of packing the great equalizer!
HOW CAN PPL NOT JUMP THE DUDE!!!! I JUST DONT GET IT… IT MAKES ME MAD!!!! JESUS… HOW can this happen with ppl on the buss… Grab a few dudes… and slap the crazyness out the attackers head… *saking my head*
This world is crazy. I can’t believe some the things that have been happening. What kind of world is this turning out to be.
i would like to know what happened to the man that did this. Does anyone know?
I AM CERTAIN THAT AT LEAST A FEW PEOPLE KNEW- THAT THIS MAS WAS ILL- VERY ILL.
I WONDER- WHO KNEW HE WAS THIS ILL, DID HE BECOME VERY WIERD LOOKING? VERY FAR AWAY, DID ANYONE SENSE DANGER, OR FEEL THAT HE WAS A WALKING TIME BOMB?
DID HE HAVE A PSYCHIATRIST? THERE ARE LAWS THAT PREVENT/ED ANY FRIENDS/FAMILY/NEIGHBORS/THE PSYCHIATRIST FROM LOCKING THIS GUY UP, EVEN IF THEY COULD SEE/FEEL THIS GUY WAS A SERIOUS ACCIDENT/TRAGEDY WAITING TO HAPPEN.
THIS IS WHAT ENRAGES ME- MAKES ME WONDER ABOUT OUR SOCIETY- OUR SOCIETY THAT IS US. WE DON’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE GUY, UNTIL THEY PERSON HAS MURDERED.
I KNOW SOMEONE IN TOWN HERE, WHO WAS A WALKING TIME-BOMB. THE FAMILY KNEW- TRIED TO HAVE HIM LOCKED UP- PUT IN HOSPITAL. NO. THE AUTHORITIES WOULDN’T DO IT.
CERTAINLY THE DR. KNEW HOW FAR AWAY AND ILL HE REALLY WAS.
THEN SENSELY HE WALKED OVER TO A FAMILY MEMBERS AND MURDERED THEM. IT SICKENED ME. IT STILL DOES.
PEOPLE GO OFF THEIR ROCKER. THIS IS REALITY. PEOPLE LOSE IT. BECAUSE OF STRESS OVERLOAD, OR MENTAL ILLNESS, WHATEVER. THIS MAN WITH THE BUS INCIDENT- OBVIOUSLY LOST IT. LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY- FOR A TIME I THINK (AND THIS IS JUST MY OPINION)- FOR A PERIOD OF TIME- HE WAS NOT A HUMAN. WAS A MACHINE, A ROBOT, DOING TERRIBLE, UNBELIEVABLE, UNSPEAKABLE THINGS. EVIL? OR SEVERE ILLNESS? WHO KNOWS.
BUT OFTEN THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE- WHO KNOW THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE SEVERELY ILL, VERY PRIOR – DAYS…MONTHS….MOMENTS….TO THESE TRAGEDIES OCCURING.
AND I DO THINK THE PSYCHIATRIST’S HAVE AND SHOULD HAVE MORE RESPONSIBILIES HERE.
SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG WITH US- YES US- IF WE CANNOT CHANGE OUR LAWS- AND SOMEHOW TAKE THESE PEOPLE IN- LOCK THEM UP UNTIL THEY SHOW SIGNS OF ‘WELLNESS’, REALITY. HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL- IS A VIOLATION OF THEIR RIGHTS.
WOULD I LIKE TO BE LEGALLY HELD AGAINST MY WILL? ABSOLUTELY FRICKING NOT. TO ANYONE- IT WOULD BE A TERRIFYING PROSPECT….(COULD YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY OF US WOULD HAVE OUR EX SPOUSE’S LOCKED UP? TEE HEE…)
SO WE WAIT….UNTIL THESE VERY UNFORTUNATE ILL PEOPLE SLAUGHTER SOMEONE, OR MANY PEOPLE, THEN WE LOCK THEM UP AND HOLD THEM AGAINST THEIR WILL.
VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE IN HERE, WE HAVE SOME SORT OF RESPONSIBILITY.
WE LOVE TO HATE THE BAD GUY, WE LITERALLY WOULD LIKE TO GET OUR HANDS ON THEM AND TEAR THEM APART FOR THEIR EVIL ACTIONS, SEE THEM SUFFER. I HAVE FELT THIS WAY.
BUT WERE THERE A COUPLE PEOPLE OUT THERE- THAT KNEW THIS MAN WAS A WALKING LAND MINE? I THINK THERE WERE. DOES SOME OF THE RESPONSIBILITY LIE WITH THEM? A LITTLE BIT. ALOT? BUT REALLY, IF THEY WOULD HAVE PHONED FOR EXAMPLE, THE COPS AND SAID “LOOK, THERE’S THIS GUY WHO LIVES IN THE APARTMENT NEXT TO ME, WHO IS NORMALLY WIERD- HE IS LOOKING SEVERLY ILL NOW, JUST LOOKS SOOOO SICK AND I’M AFRAID…” I CAN JUST HEAR THE COPS SAY “WELL HAS HE DONE ANYTHING? NO? WELL THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO.”
WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? WHO KNOWS……..
ANONYMOUS
Help the victim? Are you people for real? How many civilians can disarm a man swinging a knife and not get stabbed themselves for their pains ? If you want to play hero and die by all means go ahead !
The people on the bus should not be vilified because they “did nothing to stop it”.
NO ONE, I REPEAT, NO ONE, KNOWS WHAT THEY’LL DO IN A GIVEN SITUATION, PARTICULARLY ONE SO HORRIFIC. THESE PASSENGERS WERE NOT MEMBERS OF A SWAT TEAM. NONE OF US KNOWS WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE ABOARD THAT BUS, AND WHATEVER WE IMAGINE PALES IN COMPARISON TO LIVING IT. IF ANYONE THINKS THAT THEY WOULD BE CALM AND COLLECTED ENOUGH TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO HELP THE VICTIM, YOU’RE ONLY DELUDING YOURSELF.
I mean no disrespect to the McLean family, but Tim McLean was not the only victim. The lives of those who witnessed the tragedy first hand have forever been changed, and they are undoubtedly still struggling with the memories.
Oh my goodness
You ask why nobody helped the victim. In the ideal society, people would have selflessly helped him, but we don’t live in an ideal society. Also, it could extremely easily have turned into a bloodbath. If someone’s flipped that suddenly and that violently, it only takes one other person to get involved, and the body count would have skyrocketed. Sometimes heroics would be nice, but you need to understand it doesn’t just put one life in danger, it endangers every other person in that horrific situation.