Suspect in Vancouver Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy to appear in court today

The fishy successful the thoroughfare festival calamity that killed 11 radical successful Vancouver volition look successful provincial tribunal successful the metropolis connected Friday, conscionable hours earlier a memorial wide to commune for the victims.

Premier David Eby said Thursday that the fishy successful the case "should walk the remainder of his God damned beingness successful jail."

Adam Kai-Ji Lo, 30, had antecedently been scheduled to look successful tribunal connected May 26, aft making his archetypal quality by video connected Sunday, the time aft the incident.

But Damienne Darby with the British Columbia Prosecution Service said that Lo's lawyer had requested the adjacent quality beryllium moved ahead.

She could not corroborate the quality of Friday's appearance, but a listing connected the Court Services Online portal shows Lo is owed to marque an exertion to the court.

Darby said Lo's connection rights were canvassed during his archetypal tribunal appearance, aft which helium has remained successful custody.

Lo faces 8 counts of second-degree execution aft allegedly driving an SUV done a assemblage of radical astatine the Filipino community's Lapu Lapu Day thoroughfare festival connected Saturday, leaving 11 radical dormant and dozens injured. 

Vancouver constabulary person said much charges are expected.

Provincial time of remembrance 

Friday's wide astatine the Holy Rosary Cathedral successful Vancouver astatine 5:10 p.m. is portion of a provincial time of remembrance and mourning for the victims.

Eby, who is expected to be the mass, said the time of mourning would springiness radical clip to bespeak connected those who died and amusement solidarity with the Filipino community.

Eby, who was a quality rights lawyer earlier going into politics, delivered a full-throated denunciation of the fishy during question play successful the legislature connected Thursday.

He was responding to Conservative Peter Milobar, who asked wherefore Eby could dependable his sentiment connected the fishy erstwhile authorities had said successful the past that it couldn't sermon the deaths of children oregon seniors successful attraction due to the fact that matters were earlier the courts.

Eby said helium struggled to recognize Milobar's position.

"Because my sentiment is that the antheral made the determination to thrust a conveyance into a assemblage of children, parents, and seniors, volunteers, termination them," said Eby.

"He's facing 8 charges of murder. In my opinion, he's a murderer. It's my sentiment that helium should walk the remainder of his beingness successful custody."

Eby said that helium would respect immoderate determination was yet made by the courts, "but it volition not alteration my sentiment that this antheral did a despicable thing, did the astir hateful thing."

He said the fishy "ruined the enactment of thousands of radical and traumatized thousands more, that helium stole children from parents, parents from children," his dependable increasing louder.

"I volition basal up for the Filipino community, I volition basal (up for) the victims and I volition basal up for each right-minded, morally wide British Columbian and accidental that that antheral should walk the remainder of his God damned beingness successful jail."

Health officials person said Lo was nether the attraction of a intelligence wellness team, and Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said Lo was connected "extended leave," a word utilized to notation to radical nether involuntary care, astatine the clip of the alleged attack.

Interactions with police

Steve Rai, Vancouver's interim constabulary chief, has said Lo had galore interactions with constabulary and intelligence wellness workers earlier the alleged attack.

Jonny Morris, the CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association's B.C. division, said determination is "real fear" of reactionary moves successful effect to the calamity that whitethorn not person the interaction radical are seeking.

But these could adhd to stigma astir intelligence health, helium said.

"I'm picking up fears that … due to the fact that of the mode it's being framed, without the investigation of the strategy beyond the individual, volition stigma increase?" helium said.

"We've seen that aft incidents similar this. Will favoritism increase? Will employers say, 'Oh, you person a intelligence illness. Oh, you mightiness beryllium violent. I'm not going to prosecute you.' And what astir landlords and radical with intelligence illness? 'Oh, we don't privation you surviving successful our gathering due to the fact that of your intelligence illness.' 

"Because that's however stigma works. That's however favoritism works."

Eby has promised a reappraisal of B.C.'s Mental Health Act and said determination volition beryllium "full nationalist inquiry" if the transgression lawsuit does not pb to answers.

Sim said Wednesday that the lawsuit pointed to a "deeper nonaccomplishment successful the intelligence wellness system" and that radical are "sick and tired" of inquiries into a recurring signifier of radical successful a intelligence wellness situation becoming progressive successful violence.

Morris said immoderate introspection of the concern should beryllium a systemic reappraisal of each factors that contributed and however the strategy tin beryllium improved.