The man then stabbed the door with his knife but was unable to break through and get off the bus. The group was able to exit the bus and slammed the door behind them. The man, with the head in one hand and the knife in the other, then tried to attack the other passengers, said Oliver. "They returned to the back of the bus to find that the person who was stabbing the person in the neck had now sawed off the head of (the victim)." The bus driver pulled over on a section of the east-bound Trans-Canada Highway - about 15 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie - and many of the 37 passengers began to flee the bus.Ĭaton gathered a small group of people to go back and help the victim, said CTV correspondent Murray Oliver in Winnipeg. Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the victim, heard the commotion and turned around thinking he was going to witness a fight.Ĭaton told CTV News that once he realized what was going on he screamed: "Stop the bus, somebody's getting stabbed, everyone get the hell off." Shocked witnesses said the victim, described as between the ages of 18 to 20, was sleeping with his head against the window when the attack occurred. They reacted swiftly, calmly in exiting the bus and as a result nobody else was injured." "You're sitting there enjoying your trip and then all of a sudden somebody gets stabbed. "It's not something that happens regularly on a bus," said Colwell. He added that police apprehended the suspect when he tried to escape the bus by jumping out a window.Ĭolwell said the actions of the passengers and driver may have prevented any other attacks from occurring. He said passengers had already left the bus when officers arrived at the scene near Portage la Prairie, Man.
No charges have been laid.Ĭolwell would not confirm passenger reports that a man repeatedly stabbed his seat-mate before beheading him. Steve Colwell said a 40-year-old suspect is in custody and police were preparing to interview him. Witnesses say a man was stabbed to death and then decapitated in what appears to be a random act of violence on board the bus that was en route to Winnipeg late Wednesday.Īt a news conference Thursday afternoon, RCMP Staff Sgt. Police in Winnipeg said Thursday they do not know what triggered a vicious attack on a Greyhound bus the night before that led to the beheading of a passenger.
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