Kai-Ji Adam Lo, the suspect of the tragedy of the Vancouver Street Festival that left 11 dead people, was ordered to undergo a mental physical conditioning evaluation to determine if it is in a position to be judged.
The application for the evaluation was submitted by the legal advisor of the LO, Mark Schwartz, and was granted by Judge Reginald Harris in the Provincial Court on Friday afternoon, a few hours before a commemorative mass for the victims of the attack of the Automobile Emblebid.
The 30 -year -old, accused of eight second -degree murder positions, appeared at the audience through a video link, sitting sitting with misguided hair and red -prison clothes.
Its physical evaluation will be carried out from a custody center with mental health professionals.
All other details of the appearance are covered by a prohibition of publication prior to the trial ordered by the Court. Harris said the prohibition was necessary to guarantee a fair and impartial trial and the jury in case the case continues with that purpose.
He is accused of conducting a SUV through a multitude of people at the Festival of Lapu-Lapu Day Street Street Festival of the Philippine community on Saturday. Beyond the 11 murdered people, dozens of others were injured in the alleged attack.
Its next appearance in court is May 30 when the physical conditioning report will be submitted to the Court.
The man accused of murder in relation to the tragedy of the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival appeared in the provincial court on Friday. Kai-Ji Adam Lo, thirty years old, is accused of eight second-degree murder positions. Chad Pawson of CBC has more of the Provincial Court in Vancouver.
Vancouver police said previously that more charges are expected against it. The British Columbia Prosecutor’s Office told CBC that it continues to receive and review dissemination materials of the Vancouver Police Department in relation to ongoing investigation.
Provincial Day of Memory
Friday’s Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Rosary in Vancouver at 5:10 pm is part of a provincial day of memory and mourning for victims.
Prime Minister David Eby, who is expected to attend the Mass, said that the day of the duel would give people time to reflect on those who died and show solidarity with the Philippine community.
Eby, who was a human rights lawyer before entering politics, delivered a complete complaint of the suspect during the period of questions in the legislature on Thursday, saying that the suspect “should spend the rest of his damn life in jail.”
He was responding to the conservative Peter Milobar, who asked him why Eby could express his opinion about the suspect when the government had said in the past that he could not discuss the death of children or older people to care because the affairs were before the courts.
Eby said he fought to understand Milobar’s position.
“Because my opinion is that the man made the decision to drive a vehicle to a multitude of children, parents and elderly, volunteers, kill them,” Eby said.
“He faces eight murder positions. In my opinion, he is a murderer. It is my opinion that should spend the rest of his life in custody.”
Eby said he respect any decision by the courts, “but he will not change my opinion that this man did something despicable, he did the most hateful.”
He said that the suspect “ruined the work of thousands of people and traumatized thousands more, who stole children from parents, parents of children,” his voice became stronger.
“I will defend myself from the Philippine community, I will stop [up for] The victims and I will defend all the British Colombians of the right and morally clear mind and we will say that this man should spend the rest of his God with damn life in jail. “
Health officials have said that he was under the care of a mental health team, and the mayor of Vancouver, Ken Sim, said he was in “extended license”, a term used to refer to people under involuntary care, at the time of the alleged attack.
Interactions with the Police
Steve Rai, Chief of Interim Police of Vancouver, said he had numerous interactions with the police and mental health workers before the alleged attack.
Jonny Morris, CEO of the BC Division of the Canadian Mental Health Association, said there is a “real fear” to reactionary movements in response to the tragedy that may not have the impact that people are looking for.
But these could increase stigma around mental health, he said.
“I am collecting fears that … due to the way it is framed, without the analysis of the system beyond the individual, will stigma increase?” said.
“We have seen that after incidents like this. Will discrimination increase? Will employers say: ‘Oh, you have a mental illness. Oh, you could be violent. I will not hire you.’ And what about the owners and people with mental illnesses?
“Because this is how stigma works. This is how discrimination works.”
EBY has promised a review of BC’s Mental Health Law and said there will be a “complete public investigation” if the criminal case does not lead to answers.
Sim on Wednesday that the case indicated a “deepest failure in the mental health system” and that people are “sick and tired” of research on a recurring pattern of people in a mental health crisis involved in violence.
Morris said that any examination of the situation should be a systemic review of all the factors that contributed and how the system can be improved.
