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Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, was accused on Sunday of eight second-degree murder positions in relation to the accident at the Lapu-Lapu festival on Saturday.
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32 patients, including the 11 murdered people, were treated in hospitals throughout the continent, with 17 still hospitalized, some in critical and serious conditions and others with injuries that are not enhanceable.
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The youngest of ELeven People killed was five years old. More than people were wounded when a SUV got into a crowd in the event.
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The Vancouver police are defending their security preparations for the festival, saying that they had no indications of any threat in advance.
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Authorities say they are not investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, and the suspect has had previous interactions with the police and mental health workers.
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The organizers of the event say they are receiving support from all over the world, and the Philippine community “would show true resistance” against the tragedy.
Police say that a Vancouver man was accused of eight positions of second degree murder after a SUV was taken to a crowd at a Filipino community festival on Saturday night, killing 11 people and wounding more dozens.
Police say that they did not know specific threats against the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival, which bears the name of an indigenous resistance fighter in the Philippines who fought against Spanish colonization in the 16th century.
According to the police, the accident occurred in East 43rd Avenue and Fraser Street just before 8 pm PT on Saturday, and is not being investigated as an act of terrorism.
Police say that the 11 murdered people have an age of five to 65. The BC Ministry of Health has confirmed that 32 patients, including those who died, were seen in several hospitals from all over the low continent after the incident. Of these patients, 17 are still hospitalized, including some in critical and serious conditions, while others are being treated by injuries that are not enhanceable.
On Sunday afternoon, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, was accused of eight second-degree murder positions in relation to the accident, according to the police.
Second degree murder is generally defined in Canada as an intentional murder that was not planned in advance.
He appeared very briefly in the court for a bail audience on Sunday afternoon, with gray sweats. He did not request the bond and will remain in custody until his next appearance, scheduled for May 26 in the Provincial Court of Vancouver.
A publication prohibition prevents other details from being informed. When such prohibitions are in their place, journalists can only inform three main things: the fact that a bail audience was held, whether or not the bond was granted and if there is any condition for their release.
In a statement, the Vancouver Police Department said that the evaluation of charges was ongoing and more charges are anticipated.
The Vancouver resident, Sheldon Nipshank, was on the scene after a mortal incident of cars on the Lapu Festival Lapu on Saturday. NipShank describes what he saw and listened, adding that it is a traumatic event and hopes that “everyone will overcome this.”
At a press conference on Sunday morning, the interim police chief of Vancouver, Steve Rai, called him the “darkest day in the history of the city.”
“It is difficult to make sense of something so foolish, and I know there are questions about whether this tragedy could have been avoided,” Rai said.
In a subsequent press conference held with the mayor of Vancouver, Ken Sim, RAI defended the preparations for the police department for the Festival, saying that a risk assessment had determined that the dedicated officers and heavy police vehicles were not necessary.
“Last year … there were zero interactions with the police at this festival,” RAI told journalists. “It was a family cultural celebration that involved children, and we wanted to maintain that based on that information and that threat evaluation.
“We do not want to harass all in each event of the city of Vancouver.”
Vancouver police says that the death tolls of a car frame on Saturday night is now 11, with dozens of other injured. A 30 -year -old man has been arrested in relation to the incident in the Lapu Lapu Day Street Festival. Interim police chief Steve Rai said it was “the darkest day in the history of our city.”
Sim told the press conference that the suspect in the case had a long history of interactions related to mental health with the first to respond, and that more had to be done to address the fundamental causes of mental health disorders.
Rai repeatedly defended the department’s decision not to block the road with barricades. According to the police, there were no strong barriers on the scene, since the event was held mainly within the school.
The interim police chief added that the accident occurred behind the festival site at John Oliver high school, on a street full of food trucks, while the festival was finishing.
Vancouver’s interim police chief Steve Rai says that the suspect in Saturday’s mortal at a Filipino festival has a history of interactions with the police and thermal care professionals related to mental health. Police say they do not believe that the motives of the suspect have included terrorism.
Rai said they will now work with the city “to review all the circumstances surrounding the planning of this event.”
“The system had worked to this point, but this will be a moment of water for the operations of the city, the police, the ambulance and all the interested parties,” he said during the morning press conference.
In response to the questions of the journalists, Rai said that the accident was not being investigated as an act of terrorism, since the police do not believe that there is a religious or political ideology behind it.
The community cries after ‘unbearable pain’
The Lapu-Lapu Day Festival was organized by the Filipino BC group. On Sunday, President Rjino said that the community was receiving support from all over the world.
“He did not lose us … that the spirit of the festival was about that resistance, resistance, that courage, that force,” he said at a press conference.
“And you know, we will have to call that in ourselves.”
The BC NDP MLA Elmore and the president of Filipino BC, RJ Aquino, were visibly excited, since they held a press conference on Sunday, the day after a mortal mortal at the Filipino Festival of Lapu-Lapu Day in Vancouver. “Our approach now is to provide support to those who were affected,” said Elmore.
Aquino said that the organizers of the event would share details on how to send monetary support to those affected in due time, but asked that the privacy of grief families be respected.
In a prayer vigil full of people in St. Mary the Virgin South Hill Church in Fraser Street and 49th Avenue, just blocks from the accident site, the expedited father Farinas described the incident “heartbreaking beyond words.”
“We will support each other through this unbearable pain and continue included in our prayers,” the majority of which are of Filipino and attendees.
At the accident site in the Sunset neighborhood of Vancouver, even when the officers continued to gather evidence, the residents arrived to place tributes and honor those who died.
“I feel a lot of sadness and sadness for all families, it is very difficult,” said resident Paul Xiong, whose family was at the festival only hours before the tragedy.
“It could also have been us in this situation,” he said.
Politicians offer condolences
The condolences have become the entire political spectrum, including the leaders of the main federal political parties.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said that all Canadians are mourning after the driver of a SUV led to a crowd at a Filipino Canadian street festival on Saturday. The leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh, was at the Lapu Lapu Festival a few minutes before it happened, while the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre also talked about the incident on Sunday. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/9.6737566
BC Prime Minister David Eby was among those who spoke in the vigil in the Church, saying that in his experience, the Philippine community had only been about love and family.
“We are here today. We all join the Filipina community today. And I know that is really the case around the world,” he said.
Eby said the province would work with the city of Vancouver and the Police on the safety of events in the future, promising that the resources and information they need to guarantee safe celebrations would get.
The British Columbia Prime Minister David Eby, went to the scene on Sunday of a car mortar at a Filipina Street Festival the previous day. He said he had a ‘feeling of sick’ thinking about the impact that the incident has had on the Philippine community and thanked the lifeguards.
“This individual intentionally led a vehicle to a multitude of people,” said Prime Minister on Sunday afternoon. “What we do not know is why, and I have the police, I am having our justice system, to get the answers we need.”
A 24 -hour assistance center has been established in the nearby Douglas Park Community Center to help those affected.
Statistics Canada says that more than 174,000 people of Filipino descent represent 3.5 percent of the total population of the province, and are the third largest cultural group in BC behind those of the ancestry of southern Asia and China.
