A minimum of 11 individuals are confirmed lifeless — together with “very younger folks” — after a crazed driver sped an SUV via revelers at a Vancouver block celebration, officers confirmed.
The suspect — a nonetheless unidentified 30-year-old man from Vancouver — was “recognized” to legislation enforcement after a “important” historical past with police interactions, and was additionally well-known to health-care professionals associated to psychological well being,” interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai advised reporters Sunday.
Along with the lifeless, dozens extra are injured after the Saturday assault on the celebration for Filipino Lapu Lapu Day, and police cautioned that extra victims may succumb to their accidents
“The variety of lifeless may rise within the coming days or perhaps weeks,” Rai stated. “That is the darkest day in our metropolis’s historical past,” he added, in response to CBC.
The suspect plowed a black SUV right into a crowd of a whole bunch on the Lapu Lapu Day celebration round 8 p.m. — simply as organizers have been taking down limitations as a result of the occasion had formally ended.
Witnesses likened the scene to a bowling ball smashing via pins.
After the suspect’s automobile got here to a halt, he was held down by partygoers till police arrived.
