Manitoba: Beheading on Greyhound Bus
I think we will be keeping this story on the radar:
A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg late Wednesday was stabbed to death and then decapitated in what appears to be a random act of violence, witnesses said.
According to passengers on the bus, the victim, between the ages of 18 to 20, was sleeping with his head against the window when the attack occurred.
“He was listening to music when suddenly the person next to him began to stab him in the neck with… a large butcher knife,” CTV’s Murray Oliver reported Thursday from Winnipeg, Man.
Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the victim, heard the commotion and turned around thinking he was going to witness a fight.
Caton told CTV News that once he realized what was going on he screamed: “Stop the bus, somebody’s getting stabbed, everyone get the hell off.”
The bus driver pulled over on a section of the east-bound Trans-Canada Highway — about 15 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, Man — and many of the 37 passengers began to flee the bus.
Canton gathered a small group of people to go back and help the victim, said Oliver.
“They returned to the back of the bus to find that the person who was stabbing the person in the neck had now sawed off the head of (the victim).”
The man, with the head in one hand and the butcher knife in the other, then tried to attack the other passengers, said Oliver. (CTV)
In another report from the Canadian Press where Garnet Canton is interviewed he stated that the man came to the front of the bus carrying the head. According to a CBC report the victim was also ‘gutted up’.