A man was accused of multiple positions of murder for accusations. Killed 11 people When he got into a multitude of people at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, as witnesses described a horrible scene.
Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, was accused of eight second-degree murder positions in a video appearance before a judge on Sunday, hours after he was arrested at the scene, said Damienne Darby, spokesman for British Columbia prosecutors.
The researchers ruled out terrorism as a reason and said that more positions are possible. They said he had a history of mental health problems. He has not yet entered a plea.
A lawyer of what did not appear in online judicial documents and Associated Press could not immediately communicate with a lawyer to represent him.
Those killed were between 5 and 65, the authorities said. Around two boxes were injured, some criticisms, when a black Audi SUV accelerated down a closed street just after 8 pm on Saturday and hit the people who attended the Lapu Lapu Day Festival. The authorities had not published the names of the victims on Sunday night.
Nathaly Nairn and her 15 -year -old daughter took flowers to one of the vigils. They had attended the festival on Saturday, and Nairn counted when he saw the SUV and the bodies damaged on the ground.
“Something really dark happened last night,” Nairn said, while she and her daughter cleaned the tears.
Emily Daniels also brought a bouquet. “It’s sad. Really sad,” he said. “I can’t believe something like this can happen so close to home.”
The interim chief of the police, Steve Rai, called him “the darkest day in the history of Vancouver.” There were no indications of a reason, but Rai said the suspect has “a significant history of interactions with the police and health professionals related to mental health.”
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The video of the sequelae showed the dead and wounded along a narrow street in southern Vancouver aligned by food trucks. The Audi Suv front was broken.
Kris Pangilinan, who brought his emerging clothes and his lifestyle to the festival, saw the vehicle enter slowly beyond a barricade before the driver accelerated in an area full of people after a concert. He said that listening to people’s sounds shouting and the bodies that hit the vehicle will never leave their mind.
“It is beaten in the gas, it crossed the crowd,” Pangilinan said. “It looked like a bowling ball hitting bowling pins and all pins fly in the air.”
Supongation stopped by Standers before the police arrived
Rai said the suspect was arrested after being initially stopped by the spectators.
The video that circulated on social networks showed a young man with a black hoodie with his back against a wire fence, next to a security guard and surrounded by spectators who shouted and sank him.
“Sorry,” said the man, holding his hand in his head. Rai declined to comment on the video.
Prime Minister Mark Carney canceled his first campaign event and two important demonstrations on the last day of the electoral campaign before Monday’s vote.
“Last night, families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, father, son or a daughter. Those families live the nightmare of each family,” said Carney. “And for them and for the many other injured, to the Canadian Filipino community, and for all in Vancouver, I would like to sacrifice my deepest condolences.”
Carney joined the British Columbia Prime Minister David Eby, and the community leaders on Sunday night in Vancouver.
“In this incredible difficult moment, we will comfort the duel, we take care of each other and join in a common purpose,” Passy published in French and English in X along with a photo of him illuminating a candle in an improvised memorial near the attack.
The tragedy remembers an attack in 2018, when a man used a truck to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Witnesses describe how they went out of the way
The ocular witness Dale Selipe told Vancouver Sun that he saw the injured children in the street after the vehicle got into the crowd.
“There was a lady with her eyes looking, one of her legs was already broken. A person was holding her hand trying to comfort her,” Selipe told the newspaper.
The safety guard of the Jen Idaba-Coasto Festival told a local news site that he saw bodies everywhere.
“When I heard people shout, I ran to see what happened, and I saw lifeless bodies on the street. The people I saw first were dead in the place. Many others were injured or died,” he said.
Carayn Nulada said he took out his granddaughter and grandson out of the street and used his body to protect them from SUV. She said her daughter suffered a narrow escape.
“The car hit its arm and fell, but got up, looking for us, because it is scared,” said Nulada, who described the children shouting and victims of pale face that are on the ground or get under the vehicles.
“I saw people running and my daughter was trembling,” said Nulada.
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Nulado was in the emergency room of the General Hospital of Vancouver on Sunday morning, trying to find news about his brother, who was in the attack and suffered multiple broken bones.
The doctors identified him by presenting his wedding ring to the family in a bottle of pill and said he was stable, but that he would face surgery.
James Cruzat, owner of a Vancouver business, was in the celebration and listened to an automobile Revs engine and then “a strong noise, like a strong blow”, that initial thought could be a shot.
“We saw people on the road crying, others were like running, shouting or simply shouting, asking for help. So we tried to go there just to verify what was really happening until we found bodies on the floor.
Vincent Reynon, 17, left the festival when he saw the police running. People were crying and saw scattered bodies.
“It was like something direct from a horror movie or a nightmare,” he said.
Adonis Quita said that when he saw the SUV crossing the crowd, his first reaction was to drag his 9 -year -old son out of the area. The boy kept saying “I’m afraid, I’m afraid,” Remita recalled. They later prayed together.
His son had just moved to Vancouver from the Philippines with his mother to meet with Quita, who has lived here since 2024. Quita said he worries that the child fights to adapt to life in Canada after witnessing the horrible.
The mayor of Vancouver, Kenneth Sim, said the city had “suffered its darker day.”
“I know that many of us feared and feel restless,” said the mayor. “I know it is difficult to feel like this at this time, but Vancouver is still a safe city.”
Vancouver’s Philippine population was honoring a national hero
Vancouver had more than 38,600 inheritance residents in 2021, which represents 5.9% of the total population of the city, according to Statistics Canada, the agency that carries out the National Census.
Lapu Lapu’s day celebrates Datu Lapu-Lapu, an indigenous boss who faced the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century. The organizers of the Vancouver event, which was in their second year, said that “represses the soul of native resistance, a powerful force that helped shape the Philippine identity to colonization.”
Eby said the province won the tragedy to define the celebration. People urged to channel their anger to help those affected.
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“I don’t think there is a British Colombian who has not been touched in some way by the Philippine community,” he said. “You cannot go to a place that delivers and does not know a member of that community in the long -term care home or hospitals, care of children or schools. This is a community that gives and gives and yesterday was a celebration of their culture.”
President Filipino, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., issued a statement that expresses sympathy with victims and their families.
“The General Consulate of the Philippines in Vancouver is working with the Canadian authorities to ensure that the incident is thoroughly investigated and that the victims and their families are supported and comforted,” he said.
The Filipino government is coordinating with the Local Police to gather more details about victims and investigation, while the Vancouver consulate has established a direct line for families, the press officer of the presidential palace Claire Castro in Manila in Manila said on Monday.
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