Barker’s death, which “made me re-evaluate personally how I view police officers who say they have PTSD. Li who legally changed his name to Will Baker was found not criminally responsible in McLean’s killing due to schizophrenia. He added he was still “numb” after hearing about Cpl. MURDER Tim McLean was sleeping peacefully on a Canadian Greyhound headed from Edmonton to Winnipeg in Canada on the evening of July 30, 2008, when the. On 5 March 2009, his killer, 40-year-old Vince Li, was found not criminally responsible for murder, after it was determined that he was schizophrenic, and remanded to a high-security mental health facility in Selkirk, Manitoba, where he was detained until his release on. The tale of Vince Li, who beheaded fellow bus passenger Tim McLean in 2008, continues to cause anger across the country. “We have exactly the same thoughts and fears and revulsion that everybody else does, but we do have a job to do.” There is an immediate need to educate, train, have a peer support program in place and bring awareness to RCMP members on their mental health Barker who asked his name not be published. A legal expert says a lawsuit filed by the family of Tim McLean, who was brutally killed on a Greyhound Bus in Manitoba in July, may force policy changes, but its unlikely to garner much in the. “I don’t think I know anybody who said, ‘Gee, I wish I was at the Vince Li incident,’ ” noted a former colleague of Cpl. They found Vince Li, a paranoid schizophrenic, who had decapitated his seatmate, Tim McLean, then cannibalized his body.įor four hours, the officers maintained a cordon as Li paced back and forth inside the bus. Barker and Axa were among those called to the Trans Canada highway near Portage La Prairie after reports of a stabbing on a Greyhound bus. They are each seeking 3 million in damages. “This partnership, well, it’s very special to me.”īut as one of Manitoba’s few dog handlers, he worked irregular hours, frequently uncovering decaying corpses in the wilderness. On February 16, 2011, two passengers, Debra Tucker, of Port Colborne, Ontario, and Kayli Shaw, of London, Ontario, filed a lawsuit against Vince Li, Greyhound, the RCMP and the Government of Canada for being exposed to the horrific beheading. I can’t foresee getting out of it any time soon,” he told a community news reporter in 2004. Tim Mclean’s killer was granted an absolute discharge 9 years after stabbing, beheading and eating him.
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