![]() ![]() The Greyhound made a rest stop about a half hour earlier. Around 8:30 pm, Greyhound 1170 was an hour west of Winnipeg on the TransCanada Highway. ![]() The innocent and unsuspecting victim was Tim McLean, 22, a carnival worker heading home for a break. The Guy On The Greyhound Bus was Vince Weiguang Li, a 40-year-old Chinese immigrant to Canada who left Edmonton, Alberta eastbound for Winnipeg in the Province of Manitoba. This gruesome murder happened on a bus loaded with 38 passengers. It’s also about what’s wrong with a broken criminal justice (legal) system and the strange world of forensic psychiatry. It’s really about victim and family rights as opposed to the killer’s. It’s not to shock you with gory details, though there’s enough to go around. I’m going to tell you the nearly unspeakable story of The Guy on the Greyhound Bus. Now this deranged killer is scott-free because he was found not criminally responsible simply because he was a schizophrenic who wasn’t on pills. Have you heard about The Guy on the Greyhound Bus? The story where the psycho stabbed a sleeping bus passenger 100 times then cut off his head and paraded it like a carnival prize before gutting him and eating his eyes and his heart before the crowd? Well, it’s true. But what about guys? And what about true crime? Especially true crime with a horror twist starring a demon straight outa Stephen King’s head. I haven’t read them but respect the girls have done well in crime fiction. The Girl You Lost, Girl In The Dark, The Good Girl and, of course, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series come to mind. Then The Girl in the Ice by indie author Robert Bryndza took off. The girl-trend started with Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins’ The Girl On The Train sold millions of copies. "Certainly the horrific nature of it is probably one-of-a-kind in Canadian history.There’s intense interest around girl-train thrillers. "This particular incident, as horrific as it is, is obviously extremely rare," Day told the Canadian press. Stockwell Day, the public safety minister, said the assailant should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The attack left Canadian officials grasping for explanations. "Bus travel has been and remains the safest mode of travel in the country." "The incident was very tragic but was an isolated event," Wambaugh said. The company plans to provide the witnesses with any assistance they need, including trauma counselling and transportation. Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh offered condolences to the victim's family. "He went back to his seat and brought the head to the front and pretty much displayed it to us like that, and then dropped it on the ground in front of us," Caton said. "We heard this blood-curdling scream and turned around, and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy sitting next to him repeatedly," Caton said.Ĭaton and the driver soon returned to the vehicle, however, and found the assailant still hacking the young man's body into pieces. "When he was attacking him, he was calm - it was like he was at the beach," Caton said. Passenger Garnet Caton told the Canadian press that the assailant had "no rage or anything" and "was just like a robot" as he decapitated the victim. The 37 passengers who escaped the bus after the bloodshed began, including several children, were later taken to a nearby hotel by the Canadian mounted police. Tributes to McLean have appeared in droves on the popular online networking site, Facebook. The shocking story has focussed worldwide attention on the small Manitoba town of Portage La Prairie, where the bus stopped after the attack began. After pulling out a hunting knife and stabbing McLean as many as 40 or 50 times, witnesses said, Li displayed the victim's severed head to horrified passengers who had already fled the bus. Reports from the scene of the ostensibly random attack describe Li as boarding the bus, which was en route to Winnipeg, without incident. ![]()
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