UPDATE: IT’S VIRTUALLY DEFINITE: HE’S A MUSLIM & Yep, greyhound beheader was a Muslim..By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press WriterSat Aug 2, 7:43 PM ETTORONTO - A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim’s body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.In the tape of radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as “Badger” and says he is armed with a knife and scissors and is “defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak.”On the tape, which lasts about 80 seconds, officers continue to detail the attacker’s movements until one reports, “Badger’s at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it.”The RCMP described the tapes as “operational police communications and, as such, are not meant for public consumption.” Police said permission had not been given to use the radio transmission, which was posted on LiveLeak.com and picked up by other Web sites.Officers were responding to a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, after the bloody attack late Wednesday on the bus traveling from Edmonton, Alberta to Winnipeg, Manitoba.Vince Weiguang Li, 40, faces second-degree murder charges for the murder of a 22-year-old man, who friends and family identified as Tim McLean. Police have not confirmed the victim’s identity.Passengers said they had just reboarded the bus following a break when the suspect — for no apparent reason — stabbed the man sitting next to him dozens of times as passengers fled in horror. He then severed the man’s head, displayed it and began hacking at the body.Li’s employer said in an interview Saturday that he was shocked to learn that his “model employee” had been accused of the grisly attack. Vincent Augert, an independent contractor who d...
UPDATE: IT’S VIRTUALLY DEFINITE: HE’S A MUSLIM & Yep, greyhound beheader was a Muslim..
By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 2, 7:43 PM ET
TORONTO - A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim’s body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.
In the tape of radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as “Badger” and says he is armed with a knife and scissors and is “defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak.”
On the tape, which lasts about 80 seconds, officers continue to detail the attacker’s movements until one reports, “Badger’s at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it.”
The RCMP described the tapes as “operational police communications and, as such, are not meant for public consumption.” Police said permission had not been given to use the radio transmission, which was posted on LiveLeak.com and picked up by other Web sites.
Officers were responding to a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, after the bloody attack late Wednesday on the bus traveling from Edmonton, Alberta to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Vince Weiguang Li, 40, faces second-degree murder charges for the murder of a 22-year-old man, who friends and family identified as Tim McLean. Police have not confirmed the victim’s identity.
Passengers said they had just reboarded the bus following a break when the suspect — for no apparent reason — stabbed the man sitting next to him dozens of times as passengers fled in horror. He then severed the man’s head, displayed it and began hacking at the body.
Li’s employer said in an interview Saturday that he was shocked to learn that his “model employee” had been accused of the grisly attack. Vinc