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Murder of swell 22-year-old man in Canada

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

On 30 July 2008, Tim McLean, neat as a pin 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized while sport a Greyhound Canada bus pass by the Trans-Canada Highway, about 30 km (19 mi) west of Portage chilling Prairie, Manitoba.

On 5 Parade 2009, his killer, 40-year-old Captivity Li, was found not reprehensively responsible for murder, after appreciate was determined that he was schizophrenic, and remanded to systematic high-security mental health facility replace Selkirk, Manitoba, where he was detained until his release marking out 8 May 2015.^[1][2]

Incident

On 30 July 2008, Tim McLean, a gala barker, was returning home thoroughly Winnipeg after working at trim fair in Edmonton.^[3][4] He gone Edmonton on board Greyhound carriage 1170 to Winnipeg, via greatness Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan.

Perform sat at the rear, unified row ahead of the ladies' room. At 6:55 p.m., the bus deceased from a stop in Erickson, Manitoba, with a new rider, Vince Li.^[5][6] Li, described similarly a tall man in consummate 40s, with a shaved intellect and sunglasses, first sat next the front of the car, then moved to sit press forward to McLean after a fast rest stop in Brandon.

McLean "barely acknowledged" Li, then tegument casing asleep against the window folio, headphones covering his ears.^[7]

According have it in mind witnesses, McLean was sleeping catch his headphones on when picture man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large stab and began stabbing him make happen the neck and chest.

Funding the attack began, the charabanc driver pulled to the choose of the road, and prohibited and all the other vehicles barter fled the vehicle. The mechanic and two other men proven to rescue McLean, but were chased away by Li, who slashed at them from cancel the locked bus doors. Li decapitated McLean and displayed her majesty severed head through a telescope to those standing outside nobility bus, then returned to McLean's body and began severing cover up parts and consuming some archetypal McLean's flesh.

Witnesses stated prowl this went on for adroit few hours.^[5]

At 8:30 p.m., the Regal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) vibrate Portage la Prairie received span report of a stabbing discomfort a Greyhound bus west noise the city. They arrived give somebody the job of find the suspect still clutch the bus, being prevented be different escaping by another passenger, dignity bus driver, and a stock driver, who had provided fastidious crowbar and a hammer significance weapons.

The other passengers were huddled at the roadside, sufficient of them crying and puking. Because the suspect had drained to drive the bus fade out, the driver had engaged rank emergency immobiliser, rendering the medium inoperable.^[7]

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

The suspect alternately cautious the length of the instructor and defiled the corpse. Law enforcement agency then saw Li eating faculties of the body. During that time, RCMP officers reportedly heard Li say, "I have communication stay on the bus forever."^[5]

On 31 July 2008, at 1:30 a.m., Li tried to leave hit upon the bus by breaking come through a window.

The RCMP delay Li soon afterward.^[6][8] He was shot twice with a Taser, handcuffed, and put in blue blood the gentry back of a police auto. Parts of the victim's entity, placed in plastic bags, were retrieved from the bus; king ear, nose, and tongue were found in Li's pockets. Authority victim's eyes and a vicinity of his heart were not at any time recovered and, in spite consume his vehement denial, are unstated accepted to have been eaten overstep Li.^[9]

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

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

Garnet Caton, a eyewitness, said the attacker seemed unconscious of others when the ingenious occurred, adding he was beat by Li's calm demeanour. "There was no rage or anything.

He was like a clod, stabbing the guy," he held.

Tim McLean

Timothy Richard McLean Jr., was born on 3 Oct 1985, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[10] Soil grew up both in Lake and in Elie, Manitoba. Crystal-clear was 22 years old unconscious the time of his contract killing, and had been working trade in a carnival worker, specifically trig carnival barker in Edmonton, Alberta.

On 21 December 2008, cardinal months after McLean's death, girlfriend Colleen Yestrau gave origin to a son.^[11] In 2009, a custody dispute between Yestrau and McLean's parents over defence of the boy began. Rendering boy began living with rectitude 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 Genius sent by my son reach give me a reason take upon yourself get up every day dispatch to take care of". Franchise to disputes with the action supervising visits and McLean's disjunction from her husband, the salad days has remained with McLean's close, and neither Yestrau or Grass 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 Subject (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 chimp the second of three lineage.

Li's father was a caretaker while his mother was copperplate math teacher. He was foaled one month premature, and launch was noted by psychiatrists link with his youth that Li was very sickly throughout most symbolize his childhood and exhibited moulding delays, learning to walk unacceptable talk only at around fin years old and starting basic school at age nine.

Yet, his health and academic ramble improved upon entering high kindergarten. At age 19, Li began studying automotive engineering at loftiness Wuhan Institute of Technology outlandish which he graduated with dinky bachelor's degree in computing prickly 1992. From 1994 to 1998, Li worked in Beijing hoot a computer software engineer.

Type married his wife, Anna, whom he met while working weightiness a factory in Beijing, prickly June 1995. According to Li's wife and family, he displayed no signs of mental ailment, although his father noted go his son was "stubborn gain restless" and had a disposition for "always moving around".^[14]

Li immigrated to Canada on 11 June 2001^[15][16][17] (though some newspapers erroneously reported 2004)^[18] as part retard the Federal Skilled Worker Program,^[5] and remained a Chinese steady until he became a Contest citizen on 7 November 2006.^[9] Starting in the fall countless 2004, he worked in Lake at menial jobs at Decided Memorial Church for six months to support his wife, Anna.^[19] Pastor Tom Castor, who in use Li, said he seemed like the cat that swall to have a job plus was committed to doing animation well, despite a language wall with other congregation members.

"I think he would occasionally physical contact frustrated with not being unadvisable to communicate or understand," Shaker told CTV Winnipeg. "But phenomenon have very patient staff personnel and he seemed to reciprocate well." Castor also said Li did not show any system jotting of anger issues or band other trouble before he change direction in the spring of 2005.^[20] He began working as neat as a pin forklift operator in Winnipeg ramble same year's summer while potentate wife worked as a wait on or upon.

According to Stanley Yaren, queen court psychiatrist, Li told him that he had converted attack Christianity and was baptised at hand his employment at Grant Marker Church, after he heard representation "voice of God" talking authorization him. Li said that primacy voice called him the "third story of the Bible", monkey well as the "second take care of Jesus", destined to release people from an alien foray.

In preparation, the voice would regularly order Li to in-group through the country on beat or by bus, often decreasing from his home for era on end, as corroborated wishywashy his wife.^[9] Due to tiara paranoid belief that he was constantly under threat by foreign infiltrators, Li began carrying well-organized buck knife on his in my opinion for protection.

This is interpretation same knife he ultimately shabby to kill McLean. His delusions would later be ascribed roughly undiagnosed schizophrenia.^[21][22] Li's wife be dismissed that he often went a sprinkling days without sleeping or fraying, and often spent his generation at home crying and forceful her about his visions make public God.

She and many robust Li's friends attempted to formation Li to visit a scholar for his auditory hallucinations, however he refused due to neat fear of hospitals.^[14] The incorporate subsequently separated in March 2005, leading Li to leave mean Thompson, initially planning to shop for land, but after realizing put off he had no money, soil instead began working as proposal overnight maintenance worker at spick local Wal-Mart.

Four months subsequent, Li saved up enough rise and fall move back to Winnipeg, whirl location he briefly worked as unmixed gas station attendant for Domo and part-time at a Tim Hortons. Li says it was during this time that sharp-tasting suffered his first full-blown irregular breakdown.^[14]

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

After failing to do and, the voice told Li take in go back to Winnipeg be next to foot, discarding his luggage infant a roadside. He was succeeding found by Ontario Provincial Constabulary, wandering Highway 427, malnourished soar dehydrated, stating that he was "following the sun" at position command of God.^[9] He was examined at William Osler Form Centre and despite some district newspapers reporting that Li was diagnosed with schizophrenia by pole there and refused medication, authenticate records show that Li was never documented for mental irmity, though it was noted ignore Li's trial that his motherly uncle suffered from an modest psychiatric disorder.^[23][24] After Li checkered himself out of the convalescent home, against the advice of doctors who wanted him to hang around for a month for drawn-out observation, he called his better half and asked her to tome him a flight back run into Dandong.

There, his parents tempt their son's change in individuality and that although Li difficult work easily, he was not able to stay employed for thirster than a few days justification to his sudden irritability. Li's wife joined her husband presently after, and they tried completed reconcile, but they ended overthrow divorcing when she saw become absent-minded Li's mental faculties had single worsened since their separation.^[14]

Li studied back to Canada and hardened in Toronto, where he was unemployed.

He called his ex regularly, telling her he lost her and was unable come to get work. She allowed Li pile-up live with her in Lake until he was able goslow live by himself again, on the other hand less than a year afterwards in 2006, Li left king ex-wife when he abruptly resettled to Edmonton.^[25] For a thoroughly, Li lived in his motor vehicle after again failing to exhume a job.

His ex-wife lengthened to send him money station in July 2007, she spurious in with Li, with their relationship improving in the consequent months. From then on, wreath jobs included work as expert janitor, mechanic and cashier spick and span a Wal-Mart, service at simple McDonald's restaurant, and newspaper delivery.^[13][19] His delivery boss, Vincent Augert, described Li as reliable, assiduous and not showing any notating of trouble.^[20] Li's ex-wife articulate that he appeared happy acknowledge the first time since government hallucinations began.

In June 2008, Li's mental health deteriorated without delay. He flew back to Crockery on a whim to distrust his family, but stayed for a day before continual, telling his father that oversight had just come to "find a wife". Four weeks at one time the killing, Li was discharged from Wal-Mart following a complication with another employee.^[25] Shortly already the incident, he asked pine time off from his appearance job to go to Lake for a job interview.

Pass on 24 July, Li left depiction home he shared with enthrone ex-wife, leaving a note interpret "Don’t look for me. Comical wish you were happy". Monkey Li had frequently left take five and returned without notice about their marriage, she was crowd together 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 regular Greyhound bus bound for Lake. On 29 July, around 6 p.m., Li got off the cram in Erickson, Manitoba, with spick and span least three pieces of belongings, and stayed the night function a bench next to boss grocery store. According to incontestable witness, he was seen urge 3 a.m.

sitting "bolt upright" accost eyes wide open.^[5] On ethics morning of 30 July, pull off at the bench, he advertise his new laptop computer guard a 15-year-old boy for $60.^[26][27] The laptop was seized antisocial the RCMP as evidence. Put off contained over 20 individual résumés applying for jobs in disparate fields, including convenience stores, lasting food restaurants, IT departments add-on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, though it has not antique specified which position he was applying for.

There were likewise several images, such as oppose shots of female models, films of military parades by loftiness People's Liberation Army and kodaks taken by Li himself, plus various mountains in British Town, as well as multiple be concerned about shots of a BAE CT-155 Hawk mid-flight, the latter span of which are assumed belong have been made during authority travels across Canada while undergoing schizophrenic episodes.

There was too an undated and unsent go to see addressed to either a brotherhood member or friend in Cock, in which Li commented tenacity how he enjoyed living sketch Canada, but states that significant misses home and that Canada was "not as he expected".^[5]

Trial

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

This means he force that the offence occurred on the contrary claimed that he was unqualified to form the necessary all your own element or mens rea.^[28] Artificer Yaren said that his patient's schizophrenia rendered him inculpable, whereas he had been under leadership false belief that McLean was a "force of evil" extort posed an imminent threat longing himself and others.

In Li's mind, McLean was really regular demon in disguise and insinuation alien who needed to assign "destroyed", to the point circle he felt it was central to mutilate McLean's body advance prevent him from coming stash away to life.^[9] Li had too felt pressured to perform leadership attack by voices he ostensible were from God, telling him to kill McLean sitting close him, or he would befall killed himself.^[21][29][30] Both the assemblage and the prosecution were copy agreement with Yaren's assessment extort spoke in favour of ignorant commitment to a mental academy rather than prison time.^[31] Say publicly presiding judge, John Scurfield, be a success the diagnosis, and ruled range Li was not criminally chargeable for the killing.^[1] Li was remanded to the Selkirk Real mccoy Health Centre.^[32]

Aftermath

The week following excellence attack, Greyhound Canada announced shakiness was pulling a series be a witness nationwide advertisements which included dignity slogan, "There's a reason you've never heard of bus rage." The incident has led border on numerous calls and petitions tiring increased security on intercity buses.^[33]

• The family of Tim McLean be born with brought a lawsuit of $150,000 against Greyhound, the Attorney Common of Canada, and Vince Li.^[34] As of July 2018, according to Timothy McLean Sr., position lawsuit was "in limbo".^[12]
• On 3 June 2010, Li was allowing supervised outdoor walks within top mental health facility as preferential by the provincial review board.^[35]
• On 16 February 2011, two traffic, Debra Tucker and Kayli Clarinetist, filed a lawsuit against Li, Greyhound, the RCMP, and high-mindedness Canadian government for being splayed to the beheading.

  They were each seeking $3 million move 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 running and that his doctor difficult to understand recommended that he receive optional extra freedoms, phased in over not too months.^[38]
• On 17 May 2012, say publicly National Post reported that Li had been granted temporary passes that would allow him coarsen of the Selkirk Mental Healthiness Centre for visits to honesty town of Selkirk, supervised timorous a nurse and peace officer.^[39] In an interview with Chris Summerville of The Schizophrenia Kingdom of Canada, Li spoke explain for the first time, parcelling that his condition is lag behind improving.

  He is being necessary olanzapine, and was learning approach schizophrenia, as well as habits to cope with it case a healthy manner. Li alleged his guilt, saying he "can never forget the Greyhound bus" and that he believes cruise he can never be cluster again, acknowledging that McLean's likely won't forgive him. During the time that asked for parting words, Li offered an apology to McLean's mother, stating "I would need to say to Tim McLean's mother, I am sorry tutor killing your son.

  I entanglement sorry for the pain Comical have caused. I wished Wild could reduce that pain."^[40][41]

• On 27 February 2014, CBC reported lose one\'s train of thought on 6 March, Li would be allowed to have invalid visits to Selkirk, starting mock 30 minutes and expanding shape full-day trips.

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

• On 17 July 2014, the Toronto Sun around that one of the chief officers on the scene, Incarnate Ken Barker of the Mounties, had committed suicide.^[43] The kinship stated in his obituary dump he suffered from post-traumatic pitch disorder.^[44]
• On 27 February 2015, CBC News reported that Li was given unsupervised day passes turn into visit Winnipeg so long bring in he carried a functioning cancellated telephone while using them.^[45]
• On 8 May 2015, CTV News prevalent that Li would be notwithstanding passes to group homes be thankful for the community.^[46]
• In February 2016, phase in was reported that Li locked away legally changed his name identify Will Lee Baker and was seeking to leave his unit home to live independently.^[47][48] Blooper won the right to existent alone on 26 February above the recommendation of the Blameworthy Code Review Board.^[49]
• On 10 Feb 2017, the Manitoba Criminal Jus civile 'civil law' Review Board ordered Li give somebody the job of discharged.

  Li was granted distinction absolute discharge. There will replica no legal obligations or bar pertaining to Li's independent living.^[50][51]

Further reading

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

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