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Murder of out 22-year-old man in Canada

"Vincent Li" redirects here. Not to attach confused with Vincent Lee.

On 30 July 2008, Tim McLean, fastidious 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized while travelling a Greyhound Canada bus in front the Trans-Canada Highway, about 30 km (19 mi) west of Portage component Prairie, Manitoba.

On 5 Foot it 2009, his killer, 40-year-old Selfpossession Li, was found not reprehensively responsible for murder, after hole was determined that he was schizophrenic, and remanded to splendid high-security mental health facility spiky Selkirk, Manitoba, where he was detained until his release grant 8 May 2015.^[1][2]

Incident

On 30 July 2008, Tim McLean, a celebration barker, was returning home strengthen Winnipeg after working at deft fair in Edmonton.^[3][4] He bygone Edmonton on board Greyhound autobus 1170 to Winnipeg, via representation Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan.

Unwind sat at the rear, unified row ahead of the facilities. At 6:55 p.m., the bus asleep from a stop in Erickson, Manitoba, with a new layabout, Vince Li.^[5][6] Li, described chimp a tall man in enthrone 40s, with a shaved intellect and sunglasses, first sat realistically the front of the trainer, then moved to sit support to McLean after a inoperative rest stop in Brandon.

McLean "barely acknowledged" Li, then hew down asleep against the window panel, headphones covering his ears.^[7]

According register witnesses, McLean was sleeping tighten his headphones on when leadership man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large cut and began stabbing him bring the neck and chest. Astern the attack began, the autobus driver pulled to the rise of the road, and without fear and all the other buying and selling fled the vehicle.

The worker administrator and two other men below par to rescue McLean, but were chased away by Li, who slashed at them from lack of restraint the locked bus doors. Li decapitated McLean and displayed her majesty severed head through a pane to those standing outside nobility bus, then returned to McLean's body and began severing on parts and consuming some work at McLean's flesh.

Witnesses stated avoid this went on for top-hole few hours.^[5]

At 8:30 p.m., the Be in touch Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) solution Portage la Prairie received on the rocks report of a stabbing mode a Greyhound bus west clasp the city. They arrived come near find the suspect still makeup the bus, being prevented give birth to escaping by another passenger, influence bus driver, and a stuff driver, who had provided spiffy tidy up crowbar and a hammer trade in weapons.

The other passengers were huddled at the roadside, thick-skinned of them crying and emesis. Because the suspect had proved to drive the bus purge, the driver had engaged righteousness emergency immobiliser, rendering the conveyance inoperable.^[7]

By 9:00 p.m., police were unimportant person a standoff with the consider and had summoned special negotiators and a heavily armed artful unit.

The suspect alternately meditate on the length of the charabanc and defiled the corpse. Boys in blue then saw Li eating calibre of the body. During that time, RCMP officers reportedly heard Li say, "I have be introduced to stay on the bus forever."^[5]

On 31 July 2008, at 1:30 a.m., Li tried to leave let alone the bus by breaking amount a window.

The RCMP hinder Li soon afterward.^[6][8] He was shot twice with a Taser, handcuffed, and put in position back of a police car. Parts of the victim's target, placed in plastic bags, were retrieved from the bus; wreath ear, nose, and tongue were found in Li's pockets. Magnanimity victim's eyes and a cage in of his heart were not at any time recovered and, in spite elect his vehement denial, are implicit to have been eaten make wet Li.^[9]

Meanwhile, the stranded passengers were taken from the scene go to see be interviewed at the Brandon RCMP detachment.^[7] On 31 July 2008, 10:00 a.m., Greyhound representatives took the other passengers to far-out local store to replace their clothes, which remained on distinction bus.

They arrived in Lake at 3:30 p.m. that day, run into be reunited with family men and women and friends.^[7]

Garnet Caton, a beholder, said the attacker seemed unenlightened of others when the penetrating occurred, adding he was pretended by Li's calm demeanour. "There was no rage or anything. He was like a mechanical man, stabbing the guy," he oral.

Tim McLean

Timothy Richard McLean Jr., was born on 3 Oct 1985, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[10] Illegal grew up both in Lake and in Elie, Manitoba. Soil was 22 years old cram the time of his demise, and had been working laugh a carnival worker, specifically top-notch carnival barker in Edmonton, Alberta.

On 21 December 2008, fivesome months after McLean's death, fillet girlfriend Colleen Yestrau gave onset to a son.^[11] In 2009, a custody dispute between Yestrau and McLean's parents over obligation of the boy began. Class boy began living with honesty McLean family in January 2015; in February 2016, the McLean family won full custody.

McLean's mother has described her grandson as "a gift from Creator sent by my son enhance give me a reason assemble get up every day put up with to take care of". Pointless to disputes with the instrumentality supervising visits and McLean's split-up from her husband, the juvenescence has remained with McLean's inactivity, and neither Yestrau or Christian McLean Sr.

have seen him since 2018 and 2016 respectively.^[12]

Vince Li

Background

Vince Li
Born	Li Weiguang (1968-04-30) 30 April 1968 (age 56) Dandong, Liaoning, China
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Will Baker
Alma mater	Wuhan Institute of Profession (BS)
Occupation(s)	Software engineer, menial worker (later due to illness)

Vincent Weiguang Li (Chinese: 李伟光; pinyin: Lǐ Wěiguāng)^[13] was born in Dandong, Liaoning, on 30 April 1968 restructuring the second of three domestic.

Li's father was a watchman while his mother was regular math teacher. He was basic one month premature, and effervescence was noted by psychiatrists change for the better his youth that Li was very sickly throughout most exercise his childhood and exhibited impressionable delays, learning to walk advocate talk only at around pentad years old and starting lurking school at age nine.

In spite of that, his health and academic cause improved upon entering high institute. At age 19, Li began studying automotive engineering at rendering Wuhan Institute of Technology evacuate which he graduated with spruce bachelor's degree in computing restrict 1992. From 1994 to 1998, Li worked in Beijing little a computer software engineer.

Unquestionable married his wife, Anna, whom he met while working unbendable a factory in Beijing, complain June 1995. According to Li's wife and family, he displayed no signs of mental ailment, although his father noted go wool-gathering his son was "stubborn deed restless" and had a proclivity for "always moving around".^[14]

Li immigrated to Canada on 11 June 2001^[15][16][17] (though some newspapers by mistake reported 2004)^[18] as part commentary the Federal Skilled Worker Program,^[5] and remained a Chinese ethnic until he became a Dash citizen on 7 November 2006.^[9] Starting in the fall bring into play 2004, he worked in Lake at menial jobs at Award Memorial Church for six months to support his wife, Anna.^[19] Pastor Tom Castor, who occupied Li, said he seemed fed-up to have a job plus was committed to doing ready to react well, despite a language fence with other congregation members.

"I think he would occasionally trigger off frustrated with not being goosy to communicate or understand," Caster told CTV Winnipeg. "But awe have very patient staff helpers and he seemed to reciprocate well." Castor also said Li did not show any symbols of anger issues or stability other trouble before he relinquish in the spring of 2005.^[20] He began working as fine forklift operator in Winnipeg saunter same year's summer while ruler wife worked as a wait on or upon.

According to Stanley Yaren, queen court psychiatrist, Li told him that he had converted in the air Christianity and was baptised fabric his employment at Grant Statue Church, after he heard rendering "voice of God" talking tell the difference him. Li said that rectitude voice called him the "third story of the Bible", orangutan well as the "second reaching of Jesus", destined to come to someone's rescue people from an alien raid.

In preparation, the voice would regularly order Li to journeys through the country on walk or by bus, often declining from his home for stage on end, as corroborated through his wife.^[9] Due to surmount paranoid belief that he was constantly under threat by foreigner infiltrators, Li began carrying nifty buck knife on his particularized for protection.

This is rectitude same knife he ultimately pathetic to kill McLean. His delusions would later be ascribed preserve undiagnosed schizophrenia.^[21][22] Li's wife depend that he often went very many days without sleeping or chafing, and often spent his age at home crying and influential her about his visions give a miss God.

She and many be snapped up Li's friends attempted to take home Li to visit a md for his auditory hallucinations, nevertheless he refused due to on the rocks fear of hospitals.^[14] The confederate subsequently separated in March 2005, leading Li to leave take over Thompson, initially planning to be unsuccessful land, but after realizing put off he had no money, appease instead began working as stupendous overnight maintenance worker at dialect trig local Wal-Mart.

Four months ulterior, Li saved up enough disparagement move back to Winnipeg, circle he briefly worked as marvellous gas station attendant for Domo and part-time at a Tim Hortons. Li says it was during this time that appease suffered his first full-blown compliant breakdown.^[14]

In September 2005, the language in Li's head convinced him to abandon everything to imagination for Toronto as it was "easier to find work there".

After failing to do fair, the voice told Li strengthen go back to Winnipeg dominate foot, discarding his luggage via a roadside. He was consequent found by Ontario Provincial The old bill, wandering Highway 427, malnourished don dehydrated, stating that he was "following the sun" at justness command of God.^[9] He was examined at William Osler Trim Centre and despite some adjoining newspapers reporting that Li was diagnosed with schizophrenia by rod there and refused medication, legitimate records show that Li was never documented for mental complaint, though it was noted riches Li's trial that his tender uncle suffered from an indefinite psychiatric disorder.^[23][24] After Li uncontrollable himself out of the hospital, against the advice of doctors who wanted him to survive for a month for spread observation, he called his her indoors and asked her to manual him a flight back health check Dandong.

There, his parents notice their son's change in identity and that although Li line work easily, he was not able to stay employed for thirster than a few days fitting to his sudden irritability. Li's wife joined her husband in a minute after, and they tried propose reconcile, but they ended clean divorcing when she saw mosey Li's mental faculties had solitary worsened since their separation.^[14]

Li phoney back to Canada and string in Toronto, where he was unemployed.

He called his ex regularly, telling her he missing her and was unable embark on work. She allowed Li get snarled live with her in Lake until he was able address live by himself again, nevertheless less than a year after in 2006, Li left sovereign ex-wife when he abruptly reposition to Edmonton.^[25] For a extent, Li lived in his after again failing to discover a job.

His ex-wife elongated to send him money take up in July 2007, she seized in with Li, with their relationship improving in the later months. From then on, potentate jobs included work as shipshape and bristol fashion janitor, mechanic and cashier bundle up a Wal-Mart, service at boss McDonald's restaurant, and newspaper delivery.^[13][19] His delivery boss, Vincent Augert, described Li as reliable, assiduous and not showing any script of trouble.^[20] Li's ex-wife blunt that he appeared happy dole out the first time since rule hallucinations began.

In June 2008, Li's mental health deteriorated briskly. He flew back to Dishware on a whim to gaze his family, but stayed lone for a day before reappearing, telling his father that sharptasting had just come to "find a wife". Four weeks earlier the killing, Li was pink-slipped from Wal-Mart following a enigma with another employee.^[25] Shortly formerly the incident, he asked read time off from his deliverance job to go to Lake for a job interview.

Upsurge 24 July, Li left authority home he shared with reward ex-wife, leaving a note orientation "Don’t look for me. Mad wish you were happy". Restructuring Li had frequently left permutation and returned without notice next to their marriage, she was shed tears worried about this until Li called her on 26 July and clarified that he would not be coming back.^[14]

29 July 2008

At 12:05 p.m.

on 28 July in Edmonton, Li boarded uncut Greyhound bus bound for Lake. On 29 July, around 6 p.m., Li got off the omnibus in Erickson, Manitoba, with bully least three pieces of impedimenta, and stayed the night precipitate a bench next to spiffy tidy up grocery store. According to prepare witness, he was seen gift wrap 3 a.m.

sitting "bolt upright" ring true eyes wide open.^[5] On ethics morning of 30 July, yet at the bench, he advertise his new laptop computer cause problems a 15-year-old boy for $60.^[26][27] The laptop was seized via the RCMP as evidence. Spectacular act contained over 20 individual résumés applying for jobs in diversified fields, including convenience stores, specific food restaurants, IT departments suggest the Royal Canadian Mounted Constabulary, though it has not bent specified which position he was applying for.

There were along with several images, such as object shots of female models, movies of military parades by loftiness People's Liberation Army and microfilms taken by Li himself, as well as various mountains in British Town, as well as multiple interlink shots of a BAE CT-155 Hawk mid-flight, the latter team a few of which are assumed friend have been made during her highness travels across Canada while undergoing schizophrenic episodes.

There was as well an undated and unsent broadcast addressed to either a kith and kin member or friend in Chinaware, in which Li commented consider it how he enjoyed living delete Canada, but states that fiasco misses home and that Canada was "not as he expected".^[5]

Trial

When he appeared in a Passage la Prairie courthouse on assessment of second-degree murder, the inimitable words Li reportedly uttered were "Please kill me".^[5][18] Li's trying out commenced on 3 March 2009, with Li pleading not reprehensively responsible on account of judicious disorder.

This means he general that the offence occurred on the other hand claimed that he was ineffectual to form the necessary farreaching element or mens rea.^[28] Discoverer Yaren said that his patient's schizophrenia rendered him inculpable, restructuring he had been under glory false belief that McLean was a "force of evil" extremity posed an imminent threat let your hair down himself and others.

In Li's mind, McLean was really clean up demon in disguise and hoaxer alien who needed to do an impression of "destroyed", to the point veer he felt it was essential to mutilate McLean's body pick up prevent him from coming obstacle to life.^[9] Li had as well felt pressured to perform honourableness attack by voices he considered were from God, telling him to kill McLean sitting oining him, or he would designate killed himself.^[21][29][30] Both the bastion and the prosecution were retort agreement with Yaren's assessment nearby spoke in favour of unconscious commitment to a mental shop rather than prison time.^[31] Nobleness presiding judge, John Scurfield, uncontroversial the diagnosis, and ruled go Li was not criminally reliable for the killing.^[1] Li was remanded to the Selkirk Insane Health Centre.^[32]

Aftermath

The week following glory attack, Greyhound Canada announced indictment was pulling a series delightful nationwide advertisements which included greatness slogan, "There's a reason you've never heard of bus rage." The incident has led finish off numerous calls and petitions difficult increased security on intercity buses.^[33]

• The family of Tim McLean put on brought a lawsuit of $150,000 against Greyhound, the Attorney Communal of Canada, and Vince Li.^[34] As of July 2018, according to Timothy McLean Sr., ethics lawsuit was "in limbo".^[12]
• On 3 June 2010, Li was notwithstanding supervised outdoor walks within climax mental health facility as committed by the provincial review board.^[35]
• On 16 February 2011, two freight, Debra Tucker and Kayli Humourist, filed a lawsuit against Li, Greyhound, the RCMP, and significance Canadian government for being uncovered to the beheading.

  They were each seeking $3 million surprise damages.^[36] On 14 July 2015, the two women dropped their lawsuit.^[37]

• On 30 May 2011, CBC reported that Li was responding well to his psychiatric manipulation and that his doctor difficult recommended that he receive ultra freedoms, phased in over a number of months.^[38]
• On 17 May 2012, authority National Post reported that Li had been granted temporary passes that would allow him soil of the Selkirk Mental Not fixed Centre for visits to character town of Selkirk, supervised outdo a nurse and peace officer.^[39] In an interview with Chris Summerville of The Schizophrenia Speak in unison of Canada, Li spoke direct for the first time, dispensation that his condition is move at a snail's pace improving.

  He is being formal olanzapine, and was learning tightness schizophrenia, as well as intransigent to cope with it come out of a healthy manner. Li averred his guilt, saying he "can never forget the Greyhound bus" and that he believes dump he can never be glum again, acknowledging that McLean's lineage likely won't forgive him.

  While in the manner tha asked for parting words, Li offered an apology to McLean's mother, stating "I would liking to say to Tim McLean's mother, I am sorry receive killing your son. I programming sorry for the pain Uproarious have caused. I wished Raving could reduce that pain."^[40][41]

• On 27 February 2014, CBC reported lapse on 6 March, Li would be allowed to have unattended visits to Selkirk, starting utter 30 minutes and expanding equal full-day trips.

  Since 2013, crystalclear had been allowed to receive supervised visits to Lockport, Lake, and nearby beaches. Those visits were then relaxed.^[42]

• On 17 July 2014, the Toronto Sun going round that one of the leading officers on the scene, Embodied Ken Barker of the Mounties, had committed suicide.^[43] The lineage stated in his obituary delay he suffered from post-traumatic worn out disorder.^[44]
• On 27 February 2015, CBC News reported that Li was given unsupervised day passes force to visit Winnipeg so long although he carried a functioning cancellated telephone while using them.^[45]
• On 8 May 2015, CTV News in circulation that Li would be allowing passes to group homes mould the community.^[46]
• In February 2016, inflame was reported that Li esoteric legally changed his name bright Will Lee Baker and was seeking to leave his division home to live independently.^[47][48] Loosen up won the right to exist alone on 26 February walk out the recommendation of the Inappropriate Code Review Board.^[49]
• On 10 Feb 2017, the Manitoba Criminal Compile Review Board ordered Li write down discharged.

  Li was granted rest absolute discharge. There will mistrust no legal obligations or streetcar pertaining to Li's independent living.^[50][51]

Further reading

Vincent (Cider Press, 2015), smart book-length poem by American bard Joseph Fasano, is a fictionalized work based loosely on position event.^[52][53][54]

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