Lapu Lapu killings: Suspect charged with multiple counts of second-degree murder in Vancouver

We’re finishing our unrecorded updates for today

He appeared precise concisely successful tribunal from a jailhouse compartment wearing grey sweats a fewer minutes ago. He’s been charged with 8 counts of second-degree murder. Lo did not petition bail, truthful he’s staying successful custody. As below, a work prohibition covers different details.

The lawsuit has been enactment implicit to May 26.

Bail hearings astir ever travel with work bans

Lo's archetypal quality successful tribunal is simply a bail hearing. Those hearings tin beryllium protected by a work prohibition nether Section 517 of the Criminal Code. The bans are mandatory if requested — which they astir ever are.

When those bans are successful place, journalists tin lone study 3 main things: the information that a bail proceeding took place, whether oregon not the accused was granted bail and whether determination are immoderate conditions to their release. We can’t accidental wherefore they were granted bail — oregon wherefore not — and can’t study connected immoderate grounds that mightiness person travel up.

Lo faces 8 counts nether Section 235 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which covers some first- and second-degree murder. First-degree execution is planned and deliberate, with a fewer different scenarios wherever the complaint mightiness apply. Second-degree is an intentional sidesplitting that wasn’t planned successful advance.

We don’t yet cognize which 1 Lo faces.

If convicted, some first- and second-degree execution travel with a condemnation of beingness imprisonment.

A fishy has been criminally charged successful narration to the deaths past night. Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, faces 8 counts of murder.

He is acceptable to marque a tribunal quality this afternoon.

Mayor, interim main crook information questions to intelligence health

The quality league has wrapped.

Journalists asked respective times astir the deficiency of barricades connected the thoroughfare that was lined with nutrient trucks, wherever the incidental happened.

Sim and Rai repeatedly responded by saying they judge the "root cause" of the incidental is intelligence health.

One newsman mentioned the 2023 stabbing of respective radical astatine a Vancouver Chinatown lawsuit and asked whether it raised immoderate reddish flags astir information readying of taste events.

"It would beryllium hard to instrumentality 1 template from 1 neighbourhood and 1 acceptable of facts and use it to different event," Rai said.

Sim — who was endorsed by the constabulary national successful the 2022 mayoral predetermination — chimed in, saying Vancouver constabulary apprehended the fishy successful the Chinatown stabbing "within 10 minutes."

No interactions with fishy instantly earlier tragedy, Rai says

Interim constabulary main defends hazard assessment

As we reported earlier, determination person been questions astir however a operator was capable to get an SUV into the crowd. Rai says that the hazard appraisal done by police, anterior to large events, involves scanning societal media for threats and moving with organizers connected their needs, among a “whole gamut” of preparations.

He says that past year’s Lapu Lapu Day festival was a family-friendly lawsuit for Filipino radical to observe their culture, an ambiance constabulary wanted to support this year. He said helium believes this year’s effect was due based connected the accusation they had.

“We don’t privation to cage everybody up astatine each lawsuit successful the City of Vancouver,” the interim constabulary main said.

Police inactive moving to ID immoderate of the injured

Rai says a fig of victims "have not yet been identified."

He said "dozens" of radical person been injured, "some critically."

Those looking for loved ones who were astatine the festival tin either spell successful idiosyncratic to the 24-hour assistance centre astatine the Douglas Park assemblage centre oregon talk with a unfortunate liaison serviceman astatine 1-604-717-3321.

Youngest unfortunate was 5 years old, Rai says