![]() ![]() He said the attacker boarded the bus around Brandon, Manitoba, about 130km west of Portage La Prairie. The victim, who Caton said appeared to be about 19, had been on the bus since Edmonton. Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver were on the bus. ![]() and dropped it on the ground in front of us," Caton said.įellow 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 the police and dropped the head in front of them. and he went back and brought the head to the front and pretty much displayed it. "We put our bodies up against the door, waiting for him to come out. 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.Ĭaton 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 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.Ĭaton said the bus stopped and the passengers scrambled to disembark while the suspect allegedly began methodically carving up the man's body. The passenger then allegedly severed the man's head with a large knife and held it up by the door for others to see. Authorities declined to name the victim and provided little details about the stabbing.īut passenger Garnet Caton said the victim was stabbed 40 or 50 times by the man sitting next to him. Steve Colwell said.Ĭolwell said police apprehended the man when he broke a window and tried to escape from the bus by jumping out. The 40-year-old man, who was not identified, was arrested for the murder, which occurred Wednesday night aboard a bus travelling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press,Boris Minkevich)A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses said. A man aboard a Greyhound Bus in Manitoba stabbed then beheaded a fellow passenger in what witnesses are describing as a savage and apparently unprovoked attack. An RCMP officer negotiates with a suspect in a Greyhound bus near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. ![]()
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