US EditionMan who stabbed 3 at Vancouver Chinatown festival found not criminally responsible
The lawsuit claims failures by Vancouver and health authorities to manage Adam Kai-Ji Lo's deteriorating schizophrenia led to a deadly attack causing 11 deaths and 31 injuries.
- A man named Blair Donnelly was found not criminally responsible for stabbing three people at a Vancouver Chinatown festival due to a mental disorder, as stated by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Eric Gottardi.
- Justice Gottardi ruled that Donnelly lacked the ability to rationally choose to commit the crime, indicating he was overwhelmed by his belief that God wanted him to act in this way.
- Donnelly has a history of mental illness, having previously been found not criminally responsible for stabbing his daughter in 2006 and another patient in 2017.
- His case is now with the B.C. Review Board, which will review the case and make a decision in 90 days.
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Vancouver authorities should have known festival attacker posed threat, lawsuit says
VANCOUVER — In the weeks before a deadly attack at a Vancouver Filipino festival, suspect Adam Kai-Ji Lo asked to have his antipsychotic medication reduced, even as his mental health was deteriorating, a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit says.
Vancouver authorities should have known festival attacker posed threat, lawsuit says (Metro Vancouver)
A lawsuit by a man badly hurt in the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack says a psychiatrist was concerned the mental health of the accused was deteriorating before the Vancouver attack, that his delusions were increasing and antipsychotic medication was insufficient. The proposed class-action civil suit ...
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Man who stabbed 3 at Vancouver Chinatown festival found not criminally responsible
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Man who stabbed 3 at Vancouver Chinatown festival found not criminally responsible – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — A man accused of aggravated assault in a stabbing attack on three people at a Vancouver Chinatown festival has been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Eric Gottardi says the court doesn’t convict people of crimes for being sick. The trial heard that Blair Donnelly had asked the Holy Spirit for a sign not to carry out the stabbings in September of 2023, but he didn’t get one and carri…
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