Witnesses say a man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a seat mate, pausing during the attack to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror on Wednesday night. Police investigate the scene around a Greyhound bus Thursday Jnear Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. "That was unusual for him not to call back and then when he didn't show up for work on Tuesday we got worried," said Augert, who said it was sometimes difficult to understand Li because he spoke quickly and had a strong Chinese accent. He said Li called him back and left a message with the dates, but never followed up after that. "I had no odd suspicions about him at all," said Augert.Īugert said that Li called him two weeks ago to say he needed a day or two off to go to Winnipeg for a job interview at the end of July. We would've had no reason to let him go before all this happened."Īugert said Li had worked for him since last July and caused no problems. "He was very punctual and always cleanly dressed," he told The Associated Press. Vincent Augert, an independent contractor who distributes newspapers in Edmonton, said that Li was one of his most reliable carriers. Li's employer said in an interview Saturday that he was shocked to learn that his "model employee" had been accused of the grisly attack. He then severed the man's head, displayed it and began hacking at the body. He is in jail under video surveillance.Passengers said they had just reboarded the bus following a break when the suspect - for no apparent reason - stabbed the man sitting next to him dozens of times as passengers fled in horror. Li is expected to return to court in Portage la Prairie on Tuesday. Vince Li, 40, of Edmonton, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with McLean's death. For his friends and family, this is one of the most tragic days of our lives," McLean's childhood friend William Caron told CTV News. "Maybe those passengers will forget (the incident) one day. Passengers said the man ended up cutting off McLean's head and held it up for others to see. Frightened passengers scrambled to get off the bus as the man, who was not known to McLean, continued to stab his victim. Witnesses said McLean was sleeping when a man seated next to him started to stab him in the neck and chest with a large knife. McLean was returning home after working as a carnival booth operator at a fair in Edmonton. Yestrau said she will visit the McLean family on Saturday and return some of the 22-year-old's belongings. "I do send my heart out to them," she said, sobbing throughout a phone interview. "I don't know how (his family) is coping," McLean's friend Colleen Yestrau told CTV Newsnet on Saturday. McLean's friends said learning about his brutal death, which made international headlines, devastated them. The attack occurred just outside Portage la Prairie. McLean said his nephew was a "stubborn soul and a kind one."Ī fellow Greyhound bus passenger allegedly killed and beheaded Tim McLean on Wednesday night in a vicious knife attack. "Tim spent his life travelling and meeting new people and always saw the good in everyone." "He made friends effortlessly, disliked no one and accepted everyone for who they were," McLean said. Alex McLean said his nephew was a "little guy with a heart bigger than you could know." The Winnipeg man's uncle read a statement from McLean's family to reporters at a press conference in Winnipeg early Saturday evening. Tim McLean's family spoke out publicly on Saturday for the first time since his shocking death on a Greyhound bus.
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