A judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Li. Vincent Weiguang Li, 40, has been charged with second-degree murder. The assailant then severed McLean's head and taunted police. Without warning or apparent provocation, the man attacked McLean with a large knife as the bus neared Portage La Prairie, Man. He had sent text messages to family saying how much he was looking forward to seeing them.Īs he dozed on the bus, a man took a seat beside him. The 22-year-old had been returning to Winnipeg following a stint on the road.
'His love of his friends was easy to see'. Tim McLean, a travelling carnival worker, loved making new friends on his many journeys, said his uncle.īut 'he never left behind the ones he made in high school,' McLean said. His uncle, Alex McLean, told people who attended the funeral service that his nephew was 'friendly, kind, sweet and caring.' The funeral took place Saturday afternoon at a Winnipeg church. About 600 people turned out to say farewell to Tim McLean, the 22-year-old Winnipeg man murdered in a bizarre attack aboard a Greyhound bus.
