Were they expecting William Shatner to arrive in his helicopter to serve as their negotiator? It was a farce.Īt 1:30 a.m., the suspect, probably tired of being in the bus, tried to break a window to escape. Some of the passengers were growing more and more upset in view of the law enforcement inertia. The police did not seem to be in hurry to stop the carnage. The suspect declared, “ I have to stay on the bus forever.’’ They started bringing the stranded passengers to the police department to be interviewed. They stayed there and did nothing while Li was eating parts of the body and pacing around the bus. Li was dangerous but he only had a knife and the cops had guns and outnumbered him.
VINCENT LI SCENE TIM MCLEAN PHOTOS DRIVER
They arrived to find the bus driver, and a truck driver armed with crowbar and a hammer, trying to prevent Li from escaping.īy 9:00 p.m., the police summoned special negotiators and a heavily armed tactical unit. In fact, the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) had received a report of a stabbing in a bus at 8:30 p.m. But they were obviously ordered in no uncertain terms, to stay out of it. Some of the male passengers were growing very upset over the inaction of the police and wanted to go in themselves to put a stop to the ongoing horror. In this case, the spectators were puking, fainting and crying. It was like the puppet shows that you see in France where the public is sitting in front of this makeshift mobile trailer and reacts very loudly to the drama of the story. So, the bus had transformed itself into a mobile Theater where the spectators outside could not help but view and in a way, participate, in this gruesome play. The bus driver had engaged the emergency immobilizer system to render the vehicle inoperable because Li had tried to escape by driving the bus. He had body parts in his pockets and would hold them up for everyone to see. They allowed him to continue decapitating and desecrating his victim’s body in plain view of the passengers. What is even more baffling than this gruesome attack on McLean is the fact that law officers who had arrived at the scene did not stop Li. After the bus driver’s failed intervention, Li had gone back to the body to sever other parts and consume some of McLean’s flesh. Totally calm.’’Ī police officer who had arrived at the scene, saw Li cut off body parts from the victim’s body and eat them. The attacker just looked at us and dropped the head on the ground.
“ Some people were puking, some were crying, some were in shock. Caton reported that he got sick after he saw the severed head. They were in the middle of nowhere so they could not escape this horrific situation. Li decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to the horrified passengers who had fled the bus and were gathering outside.
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