A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
- On April 26, 2024, a deadly assault during Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu Day celebrations resulted in 11 fatalities and left 13 individuals wounded.
- The accused, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, has schizophrenia and was on extended leave under provincial mental health care before the attack.
- The Lo family had faced recent turmoil, including the January 2024 death of Adam’s brother Alexander Lo, who was found dead in East Vancouver.
- Adam Lo faces eight counts of second-degree murder, with additional charges anticipated, and authorities have mandated an evaluation of his mental state to determine if he is competent to stand trial.
- The tragedy spurred public grief and demands for mental health reform, with Premier David Eby pledging changes to the Mental Health Act amid ongoing debates over mandatory treatment laws.
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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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