Passenger stabbed and decapitated victim on Greyhound bus, displayed head to fellow passengers

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date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:33:50 -0700 (PDT), group: uk.politics.guns back

Passenger stabbed and decapitated victim on Greyhound bus, displayed head to fellow passengers

Imagine what just one person with a Concealed Carry license could have
done.

Killer stabbed and decapitated victim on Canada bus
August 01, 2008

A MAN aboard a Greyhound bus travelling across Canada calmly stabbed
another man and decapitated him, pausing briefly to display the head
to horrified passengers.
The attacker then proceeded to disembowel his victim, witnesses told
police.

Passengers fled the bus in panic, and police said later their quick
evacuation may have kept the killer from turning on others.

A 40-year-old man, who was not identified, was arrested for the murder
on the bus, which was travelling overnight Wednesday from Edmonton,
Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant
Steve Colwell told a news conference.

Colwell said police apprehended the man when he broke a window and
tried to escape from the bus by jumping out. Authorities declined to
name the victim and provided little details about the stabbing.

Colwell said they didn't know what prompted the attack and said they
had not yet interviewed the man as of mid Thursday afternoon. He did
not explain the delay.

Passengers said the attacker did not seem to know the victim, who
appeared to be about 19 years old, and that he wore sunglasses
throughout the attack although it was the middle of the night.

Passenger Garnet Caton said the victim was sleeping with headphones on
before he was stabbed 40 or 50 times by the man sitting next to him.

"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.

The attacker severed the man's head with a large hunting knife and
held the head up by the door for others to see.

"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 that the attacker eventually tried to get off the bus, but
that he, the driver and a passing trucker who had stopped to help,
threw their weight against the door to prevent the man from leaving.
When the attacker appeared to be attempting to start up the bus and
drive away, the bus driver went to the rear of the bus and somehow
disabled it, Caton said.

Fellow passenger Cody Olmstead said the man "dropped the head and went
back and started cutting the body back up."

Olmstead said the man later taunted police, who had surrounded the
bus, and dropped the head in front of them.

He said some of the passengers were watching the movie "Zorro" when
the attack took place.

Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver
were on the bus.

The victim had been on the bus since Edmonton. Caton said the attacker
boarded the bus around Brandon, Manitoba, about 130 kilometres west of
Portage La Prairie, a town in the heart of the Canadian Prairies.

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.

He continued: "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."

Colwell, the RCMP spokesman, praised the passengers for their
behaviour.

"It's not something that happens regularly on a bus," he said. "You're
sitting there enjoying your trip and then all of a sudden somebody
gets stabbed. I imagine it would be pretty traumatic ... the way they
acted was extraordinary."

Colwell added that "they reacted swiftly, calmly in exiting the bus
and, as a result, nobody else was injured."

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called it a "horrific" incident,
but did not discuss details of the attack, saying he did not want to
jeopardise 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.

date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 01:33:50 -0700 (PDT) author: St Georges Day April 23rd