A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
- On April 26, 2025, a vehicle attack at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival killed 11 people near the Lo family home.
- The tragedy followed a series of events affecting the Lo family, including Alexander Lo's January 2024 homicide and ongoing financial and mental health struggles.
- Adam Lo, arrested on murder charges after the festival, had been under close mental health care and was on extended leave prior to the incident.
- The GoFundMe fundraiser Adam Lo launched raised over $90,000 for funeral costs, while legal and personal challenges marked the family's recent months.
- Adam Lo faces eight counts of second-degree murder with more charges expected, and a mental health assessment is ordered to determine his trial fitness.
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A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
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Grief, Questions, and a City Searching for Answers After the Lapu Lapu Festival Attack — Coastal Front
(Courtesy of CBC) On the evening of April 26, a Filipino cultural celebration in Vancouver became the scene of the city’s deadliest mass killing in modern history. An SUV tore through a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Day festival, killing 11 and injuring more than 30 others.The devastating impact on families, survivors, and the Filipino-Canadian community has rippled far beyond British Columbia, sparking an outpouring of grief, questions, and scrutiny o…
A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus’ Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded. “Brother, we will get to see this together sometime,” wrote Adam Kai-Ji Lo. But he knew it wasn’t to be. Alexander Lo had already been found dead in an East Vancouver home on Jan. 28, 2024, the day after his Facebook post, police said. Dwight William K…
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