As passengers fled the bus Baker continued stabbing and mutilating the body before he was arrested. He repeatedly stabbed McLean while the young man fought for his life. Baker said he heard the voice of God telling him to kill the young carnival worker or “die immediately”.
Baker emigrated to Canada from China in 2001 and became a Canadian citizen four years later.īaker sat next to the 22-year-old McLean on the bus after the young man smiled at him and asked how he was doing. He is on the waiting list for a post-secondary training programme and plans on establishing a career in the city. Waldman said Baker planned to visit his native China if released but would live in Winnipeg for the next two to three years. In a written decision the review board said it “is of the opinion that the weight of evidence does not substantiate that Mr Baker poses a significant threat to the safety of the public”. Waldman testified Baker knows it is the medication that keeps his illness at bay. He has been living on his own in a Winnipeg apartment since November, but was still subject to monitoring to ensure he took his medication.īaker’s doctor, Jeffrey Waldman, told the board earlier this week that he is confident Baker will remain on his medication and will continue to work with his treatment team if released. In a post on Facebook on Friday she said “I have no words.”īaker was initially kept in a secure wing of a psychiatric hospital but was given more freedom every year. McLean’s mother, Carol de Delley, has been outspoken against granting Baker freedom, saying there would be no way to ensure he continued to take his medication. A year later Baker was found not criminally responsible due to mental illness. “Bile rises into my throat and it chokes me.Baker, a diagnosed schizophrenic, killed Tim McLean, a young carnival worker who was a complete stranger to him, in 2008. I experience a chill,” Brenda Lewis told the hearing. Since I have to travel the highway to get to the counselling and therapy sessions I require for me to cope, what choice do I have?”Īnother family friend told the hearing every time she sees a Greyhound bus, she’s reminded of the gruesome way McLean died. “Did they ever get all the blood out? I don’t want these thoughts, they just come. “I wonder, is that the bus my son was slaughtered on?” deDelley told the hearing. In victim impact statements read before the review board, several family members and friends talked about the difficulty of seeing a Greyhound bus on the road. The prospect of seeing the bus where McLean was murdered haunts many grieving the loss. But then again, I never even heard a message of condolence from Greyhound.” “Greyhound doesn’t want to lose the cost of a bus. “That would be the respectful thing to do,” she said. In the meantime, deDelley said the bus that became a gruesome crime scene should be taken off the road. The review board responsible for Li’s fate ruled this week that the Chinese immigrant will remain institutionalized for at least another year.
A judge ruled in March that Li suffered from untreated schizophrenia and did not realize that killing the 22-year-old carnival worker was wrong. Li was found not criminally responsible for killing McLean in front of horrified passengers near Portage la Prairie, Man., last July. “I can seldom leave my home, never mind get on the highway, without encountering at least one of those buses.” “The town I live in is a Greyhound stop,” she said Thursday. McLean’s mother, Carol deDelley, said she is haunted every time she sees a Greyhound bus, wondering whether that’s where her son’s life brutally ended last summer. “After an extensive restoration and cleaning process and a new bus number, the bus is in service in another province,” Abby Wambaugh said, declining to say whether Greyhound considered taking the bus out of commission following the tragedy. WINNIPEG - The Greyhound bus in which Vince Li attacked and dismembered fellow passenger Tim McLean last summer should be taken off the road out of respect, the victim’s mother said Thursday.Ī spokeswoman for Greyhound said the notorious bus is now used in another part of Canada.
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