Posted on 08/05/2008 2:18:25 PM PDT by xp38
An Edmonton man accused of killing a 22-year-old fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus travelling through southern Manitoba was ordered Tuesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Vince Weiguang Li, 40, is charged with second-degree murder in the death last Wednesday of Tim McLean, a Winnipeg man who had been working at a carnival in Edmonton.
According to court officials and reporters within earshot of the accused man, Li softly said "please kill me" during his brief appearance midday Tuesday in a provincial court in Portage la Prairie, a city west of Winnipeg.
The judge did not acknowledge Li's words in any way.
The court appearance was temporarily delayed when the judge called a recess to give Li one last chance to speak with a lawyer.
As with his first court appearance, Li refused to speak to the judge. When the judge asked Li if he understood the seriousness of the crime, he nodded. When asked whether he wanted a lawyer, he fiercely shook his head.
The judge urged him to get a lawyer and ordered a psychiatric assessment to determine whether or not he's fit to stand trial. Details of arrest revealed
Also in court Tuesday, the Crown revealed graphic details about the killing obtained from lead RCMP investigators, including that the accused defiled and cannibalized the corpse.
The court heard that an hours-long standoff came to an end early Thursday when the accused broke a window, dropping scissors and a knife out of it and then leaping out of the window himself. The man was then arrested by RCMP.
Local media have reported that Li, who is being held at the Winnipeg Remand Centre, has been on suicide watch and has not been communicating except by nodding or shaking his head.
During his first court appearance on Friday, Li silently stared at the ground, not even responding to the judge when asked for a plea. He wasn't accompanied by a lawyer.
The Crown prosecutor has said that if Li decides not to get a lawyer, the court could appoint one or the case could proceed anyway. Accused delivered papers
Li stands accused of repeatedly stabbing and then beheading McLean in an apparently unprovoked attack that made international headlines and sparked a debate about bus safety.
Details emerged late last week about the accused, including that he had worked at McDonald's and delivered newspapers for several publications in Edmonton, where he had relocated in the past few years.
A Winnipeg pastor who knew Li expressed shock at the charges, describing him as a nice, hard-working man. Police said Li has no previous criminal record.
Pastor Tom Castor helped hire Li shortly after he immigrated to Winnipeg from China in 2004 and said he never showed any sign of anger or emotional problems. Li had come to Canada with his wife, Anna, to seek a new life.
He is in the wrong country to be asking for that
The guy killed the young man, beheaded him and began to eat him. In Canada that might get him several years in prison without a plasma TV set of his own.
Gee, ya think he might be a little "off"?
This guy clearly has some major psychiatric problem, and it doesn’t sound like anybody saw any sign of it at all before this extremly violent incident. Very different from the Va Tech killer, and many others, where clearly many people knew the person was unstable but either made no attempt to take action or were prevented by our insane legal system from getting any action taken. I really wonder what this guy had been through back in China, before he came here. Was this some sort of PTSD flashback? Or an out-of-the-blue psychotic break?
I take it there weren’t any other passengers to intervene?
Where was the driver?
One guy with a knife dining on a dead passenger and there’s an hours-long standoff? What on earth for?
I can’t imagine why it took 6 days to get a psych evaluation ordered. I mean what the heck have they been doing with him all this time? Just having him sit in a jail cell, getting 3 square meals a day, like any ordinary gangbanger?
Wasn’t the man taken on the spot? Weren’t there many witnesses? In these instances I often wish the law could just show up and execute the jack ass.
We’ll spend thirty years pampering this vile torturing unmerciful cannibal, when he didn’t give his victim’s plight one second of thought.
Ill or not, human refuse... Alt+Delete+Refuse
Problem solved..
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Stupid newspapers ... this attack has nothing to do with buses, trains or airplanes or taxis or Burger King. This could have happened anywhere, unless you live and travel alone.
I read somewhere that CBC had called him a “Chinese Muslim” in their first reports but then pulled the page.
No need to exaggerate, he will get a plasma TV.
Instead of a psychiatric exam, there should be a summary execution and burial.
I have a solution for insane killers. Execute them first. The can’t be reasoned with. They are more dangerous than the simply evil.
I’ve already done an assessment. He’s nuts.
Protect people, just execute him.
in addition, secure him to a chair and place the severed head, suitably mounted, on a table in front of him.
You don’t even need a PhD in nuttiness to know he’s a nut.
But they’ll no doubt spend millions on him like Atlanta is spending on Nichols.
You don’t even need a PhD in nuttiness to know he’s a nut.
But they’ll no doubt spend millions on him like Atlanta is spending on Nichols.
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