He was immediately arrested by the RCMP.Īug. Li allegedly broke a window on the bus, threw out a knife and scissors and then jumped out. CBCNews.ca: 40-year-old suspect held in gruesome Manitoba bus killingĪccording to some of those on board, the bus driver ushered all the other passengers out of the bus while the attack was taking place and disabled the bus so it could not be driven away.(approx.) Attack takes place about 10 kilometres east of Portage La Prairie, Man. Bus departs Brandon with the movie Zorro playing on the bus TV screens. Greyhound bus arrives in Brandon, where the driver gives passengers extra time to eat. Shortly before 6 p.m. Li boards the fateful bus heading to Winnipeg, which is carrying Tim McLean and 35 other passengers. He spends most of the afternoon in an alley beside the grocery store. Morning of July 30 From the park bench, he sells his new laptop computer to a 15-year-old boy for $60 Li tosses in the computer bag for free. He spends a long time in M&M Grocery store and then, according to one witness, passes the night on a park bench. Li gets off the bus in Erickson, Man., with at least three pieces of luggage. Midnight of July 28 In Edmonton, boards Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg. Morning of JLi delivers his last set of newspapers. July 2008 Returns to his newspaper delivery job. Mostly kept to himself, though staff there said he was let go after a disagreement with a fellow employee, the Edmonton Journal reported. January to June 2008 Works at the Clairview mall Wal-Mart in Edmonton as a janitor, mechanic and later as a cashier. and then a larger 16th-floor apartment in a building nearby, on 90th Street near Jasper, the CBC found. In Edmonton, Li lived in a 300-square-foot basement apartment at 8322 Jasper Ave. July 2007–April 2008 Works for an Edmonton distribution company delivering newspapers. That means he had been living and working in Canada for at least three years without incident. His wife is working in restaurants and begins attending Grant Memorial Church on her own, according to Tom Castor, the minister at Grant Memorial.Ģ006 Vince Li leaves his wife and moves to Edmonton.Ģ007 At some point in 2007, Li is granted Canadian citizenship, court was told. Summer 2005 Li takes a job as a forklift operator for Midland Foods on Nairn Ave. October/November 2004 Shows up at Grant Memorial Baptist Church in Winnipeg looking for work and is hired as a night custodian. It is not clear whether it was Li or Anna who qualified for entry under Canada's federal skilled worker program.Ģ001–2004 Nothing known at this point as to what Li did during his first years in Canada. 8, 2008.Ģ001 Li arrives in Canada from Beijing with his common-law wife, Anna, and lives in Winnipeg for nearly five years, court was told on Aug. The Crown is also looking into information that he may have spent four days in a psychiatric institution. ((John Woods/Canadian Press))Īccording to the Crown attorney in Brandon, Man., Li's former partner, Anna, said he had a habit of taking bus trips with no apparent destination. 5, 2008, to face second-degree murder charges in the death of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus. Vince Li, appearing in court in Portage La Prairie, Man., on Tuesday, Aug.
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