![]() ![]() ![]() It was an incident that shook the country to its core, making national and international headlines that continued into the year that followed. Suffering from untreated schizophrenia and psychotic delusions at the time, Li reported hearing commands from God ordering him to kill the sleeping McLean, whom he apparently viewed as a demon. It has been 10 years since 22-year-old Tim McLean was brutally killed and beheaded in an unprovoked attack by Vince Li on a Greyhound bus west of Portage la Prairie. “It was a bit eerie, you knew he was still on the bus … There was no discussion, just intense waiting and watching to see what was going to happen next.” Carol de Delley with her son Tim McLean in a 2007 family photo. The officers on scene were quite calm,” Hitchen said.Įventually, Hitchen made his way along the road to where other media had gathered, waiting to be given more information. It was very shadowy … the windows were dark. “All we could see was one light, it may have even been the headlights. They ventured along a service road until they were parallel to the bus across the highway. ![]() They were stopped by a lone firefighter blocking the eastbound lane of the Trans-Canada Highway, Hitchen said, but got a tip the service roads were still open. “I remember the rain, the wet roads - there was a thunderstorm rolling in - and we were just zooming out to the scene,” Hitchen said. Hitchen met up with former Brandon Sun photographer Colin Corneau and the two sped off toward MacGregor. RCMP officers investigate after Vince Li attacked and beheaded fellow Greyhound bus passenger Tim McLean near Portage la Prairie on July 30, 2008. “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing … I was just dumbfounded.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods He said, ‘Ian, there’s a guy who has cut a person’s head off on a bus,’” Hitchen said. “I got on the phone and it was (colleague) Perry (Bergson). “Two and a Half Men” was on television in the background when the phone rang. He was getting into his pyjamas and settling in for the evening on July 30, 2008. This article was published (2025 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.įormer Brandon Sun reporter Ian Hitchen still remembers the evening he got the call. ![]()
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