40-year-old suspect held in gruesome Manitoba bus killing--Passenger decapitated (graphic details)

CBC News ^ | July 31, 2008 | CBC News, otherwise unknown

[Auntie Mame]

As hard as I try, I can find no mention of the nationality of the murderer, even though there are interviews with witnesses.

[null and void]

Well, at least now we know he’s 40...

[null and void]

...and he beheads people...

[penelopesire]

another thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054295/posts

Still no info on names.

[Glenn]

he had smoked a cigarette earlier in the trip with the victim

Ah. A smoker. That explains it.

[villagerjoel]

“...and he beheads people...”

Hmm...nope. Can’t come up with any group of people known for such things. He was from outside of Manitoba. Detroit maybe?

[I see my hands]

"40 year old suspect" "described as a man in his late teens or early 20s"

40 is the new 20?

[calex59]

Let me guess, the guy that cut this other guys head off was a muslim even though they haven’t mentioned it here.

[newfreep]

Colwell said the "brave" behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt.

I'm still amazed the other 36 bus riders chose to not stop the killer while he was stabbing the victim 50 times. Brave? I don't think so.

[alloysteel]

The “nationality” will probably be listed as “Canadian”, but there is a good chance that “Mohammed” may be part of that name.

Just another one where the insulation got rubbed off between a couple places in the internal wiring, and he went into “robo-killer” mode, like a berserk automaton.

Probably doesn’t remember a moment of it, either.

[I see my hands]

Read much? Dope!

[Biggirl]

Not suprising, Canada has some tough PC hate crime laws.

[WOBBLY BOB]

former goalie. too many pucks to the head.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I think I sat next to him, the last time I was on a bus.

[MaineConservative]

Canada needs to pass a waiting period for knives. I wonder how it would have been if someone had a concealed weapon on the bus.

[mrsmel]

That’s what I thought when I read that. How does someone stab another person multiple times, and not one of these “brave” people stepped in together to stop him before he got as far as beheading the man?

I also agree with those who think there’s a chance that he’s Muslim, since the media won’t release any details, and that’s their MO.

[JOE6PAK]

[sourcery]

The ethnicity/culture/religion of both the perp and the victim are not specified. For all we know, one is French speaker and the other is an albino Eskimo. Or perhaps one is a Mormon missionary and the other is an Elder in a Jehovah’s Witness congregation? [Somehow, I don’t think any of those are actually the case...]

Of course, one major political faction of our society would say that we are sick people to wonder or worry about it. And the other faction would say that we are even sicker (intellectually dishonest) to aritificially ignore the subject, making a false pretense that it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) matter to anyone.

There is no louder way to shout how much a topic matters than to make it a taboo subject. Just ask any child above the age of ten about the effectiveness of the taboo on talking about sex when children are in the audience.

Sometimes, it is what is not said that sends the most emphatic message.

[maine-iac7]

name? probably just one of those Smith or Jones boys -

[Procyon]

Passenger Cody Olmstead, 21, told CBC News he had smoked a cigarette earlier in the trip with the victim, whom he described as a man in his late teens or early 20s. The victim got on the bus in Edmonton, he said.

The VICTIM was in his twenties, NOT the perp.