Man Decapitated By Seat Mate On Bus
Witnesses Say Victim Was Stabbed 40 To 50 Times And Methodically Carved Into Bits
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RCMP officers investigate a murder that occured on a Greyhound bus on July 31, 2008 near Portage La Prairie, Man. A passenger was decapitated onboard the bus on July 30, 2008. (AP PHOTO)
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The man, who was not identified, was arrested for the murder, which occurred Wednesday night aboard a bus traveling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.
Authorities also declined to name the victim and provided no other details about the attack.
Passenger Garnet Caton said the victim was stabbed 40 or 50 times by the man sitting next to him. The passenger then allegedly severed the man's head with a large knife and held it up by the door for others to see.
"We heard this bloodcurdling scream and turned around, and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly, like 40 or 50 times," Caton said from a hotel in Brandon, Manitoba, where he and other passengers had been taken to rest.
Caton said the bus stopped and the passengers scrambled to disembark while the suspect allegedly began methodically carving up the man's body.
"When he was attacking him, he was calm ... like he was at the beach," Caton said. "There was no rage or, or anything. He was just like a robot stabbing the guy."
Caton said he, the bus driver and a trucker at the scene re-boarded to see what was happening.
Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him."
He said they quickly disembarked and braced themselves against the door to prevent the attacker from leaving while they waited for police to arrive.
"We put our bodies up against the door, waiting for him to come out ... and he went back and brought the head to the front and pretty much displayed it ... and dropped it on the ground in front of us," Caton said.
Fellow passenger Cody Olmstead told Brandon radio station CKLQ that the man "dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body back up."
Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver were on the bus.
The victim, who Caton said appeared to be about 19, had been on the bus since Edmonton. He said the attacker boarded the bus around Brandon, Manitoba, about 80 miles west of Portage La Prairie.
The suspect had been on the bus for about an hour and didn't even sit near his victim at first.
"He sat in the front at first, everything was normal," Caton said.
"We went to the next stop and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting.
"He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn't say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal. About a half an hour later, we heard this bloodcurdling scream."
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called it a "horrific" incident, but did not discuss details of the attack, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.
"We want to make sure that the process is followed as aggressively as possible, a full legal process, and the perpetrator is definitely dealt with the full force of the law," he said.
Day called it bizarre and extremely rare.
"The horrific nature of it is probably one-of-a-kind in Canadian history," Day said.
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See all 370 CommentsRight Erasmus?
OK, I''ll take a stab at it:
"What''s that up in the road, a head?"
Right Erasmus?
Posted by HawkSprings at 03:19
I would definately say George Bush--he does have a fixation on death--had to have had something to do with this!
Posted by libsluv2spit
I can''t believe Canadians haven''t outlawed knives yet!!
How outrageous.
Of course, when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
Posted by lazareth at 03:28 PM : Jul 31, 2008
That''s all I need to know this was part of a Muslim Jihad.
Come on libs!!! WAKE UP!!!
Especially Manitobans.
I mean, how depressing that you live in a place where the farthest south you can go is... North Dakota!!!
Witnesses Say Victim Was Stabbed 40 To 50 Times And Methodically Carved Into Bits
All joking aside this is a serious and henious crime committed on a Greyhound bus with other people on board. What a freak this guy is, why can''t the media give out any information on the suspect. Horrible for the victim his family and friends to die like this. This world is full of crazies.
Posted by redwhtblue2
You''re right... we should cut it off, I mean, out.
How outrageous.
Of course, when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
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Posted by HawkSprings at 03:29 PM : Jul 31, 2008
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nah it means outlaws would start using ''forks''..
then they will ban forks then outlaws would start using something else..but rest assure that will that liberal enligthenment, they will figure this out..humm..isnt there a law about outlaws and what to do with them??
Poor schmuck will probably end up in the cargo compartment for the return leg.
THAT, would account for the rage in this guy!
If this would have been Florida, Texas, or Georgia, two or three passengers could have pulled out their Glocks and ended this miserable b@stards'' murderous life!
How outrageous.
Of course, when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
Posted by HawkSprings
Nah, it means outlaws would start using ''''forks''''..
Posted by libsluv2spit
No, they will use Sporks.
. . . what?
. . . huh?
. . . never mind
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Posted by DaVicar2 at 04:17 PM : Jul 31, 2008
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dont give a liberal any idea..they might not make it illegal but I AM SURE they would make it legal instead.
ahhh a henious act like this?? well we can either have a liberal adopt a meat cleaver murderer...or..we can lock up a person who just dicapitated a person with a meat cleaver in hope that in the future he might recover and be a nice good citizen again..(whats a few thousand dollars a year, liberals has a lot of money..) or we can just hummm simply rid of society of this meat cleaver killing person and put a .5 cent bullet between his eyes. (hey I am sure I can find a volunteer..no pay..even would provide gun and ammo)
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Posted by obama441 at 04:25 PM : Jul 31, 2008
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an american in canada?? must be one of those anti-american liberal..maybe he was just trying to go home so he can vote for obama.
ther is a bunch of "AMERICAN COWARDS" hiding in Canada,
Prayers to the victim''s family first.
OK...now back to you heathens arguing about religion and politics...
Unclesamurai
Prayers to the victim''s family first.
OK...now back to you heathens arguing about religion and politics...
Unclesamurai
Prayers to the victim''s family first.
OK...now back to you heathens arguing about religion and politics...
Unclesamurai
It is a shame that so many of you came from redneck backwoods families.
THE ATTACKER MUST HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT SOMETHING SOMEONE DOES THE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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That''''s the funniest thing I''''ve heard in months.......LOL Right up there with "Who''''s on first" or George Carlin''''s weather forcast from long ago!!
Posted by FarRemoved at 04:30 PM : Jul 31, 2008
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darnedsocks is alluding to the cold-blooded manner in which the murderer attacked and killed. It would suggest someone who has done it BEFORE!
He/she was''t suggesting this guy goes around doing this often or infrequently in such an open manner on buses in public etcetera! OK? :)
Sleepwalking people have driven cars, cooked and in one case in the UK ... a court accepted that a sleepwalking husband strangled and battered his beloved wife and therefore he was innocent. But then I read on another website (is this reliable?), that he waved the head out the window taunting the cops.
I have difficulty accepting this is Schizophrenia, he had a smoke with a fellow passenger, so we infer that he chatted and appeared sane beforehand, but a severely psychotic Schizophrenic can''t even form sentences. This is revolting, inexplicable and bazaar.
If he was American, border security on the Canadian side will now become UNBEARABLE!
If Canadian, not as much a problem for Canadian authorities. Violence and crime is more than twice what it is America, even though the population is a lot smaller! Which means---
If you''re an American, and you go to Canada to visit,
you better check your ''smart mouth'' at the border!
Especially, if you tend to be really unlucky! Lest
you end up with Canuck the Beheader! :)
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