Canada: Car Plows Into Filipino Street Festival, Kills Nine

Sunday, April 27, 2025

At least nine people were killed and an unknown number were injured when a 30-year-old man drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver on Saturday. The event celebrates a Filipino martyr who stood up to Spanish colonization in the 16th century. Video shows a young man in a black hoodie with his back against a chain link fence, alongside a security guard and surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him. "I'm sorry," the suspect says, holding his hand to his head. Vancouver has 38,600 residents of Filipino heritage (5.9% of the city's total population).

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Here's a video of the suspect: x.com

A motive or reason for this mass casualty attack has yet to be disclosed.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-27 11:26 AM | Reply

I am going with insanity.

The same motive of maga maroons.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-27 11:37 AM | Reply

Ban Cars!
--Liberals

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-27 11:50 AM | Reply

Ban Cars!
--Liberals
#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Well it is Canada.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-27 12:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Almost exactly seven years ago on 23 April 2018, an InCel lunatic rammed his into a crowd in Toronto. 25-year-old Alek Minassian targeted pedestrians, killing 11 and injuring 15, some critically. The Toronto incident is the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history. This maniac in Vancouver came close to outdoing Alek Minassian in Toronto.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-27 01:00 PM | Reply

Remember all the danging grannies in Wisconsin? Yeah, that didn't get much attention.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-27 04:56 PM | Reply

If Zed weighs in he will make this about Trump.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-27 05:34 PM | Reply

7. Since you just did, I guess you think a constant quarter-century drumbeat of xenophobic messaging and internet links stop at the US border. The problem is a lot older than Trump, but he's the most dangerous manifestation of it. By far.

#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-27 09:23 PM | Reply

#8. This isnt even about illegal immigration. It's a random act of violence that occurred in Canada.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-27 11:25 PM | Reply

I wasn't talking about illegal immigration.

Random? Random is more like dropping bricks off an overpass, or a sniper shooting into a completely mixed crowd of 10,000 people. You consider this type of activity an outlier these days? And don't think it's influenced by violent US rhetoric?

#10 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-28 07:37 AM | Reply

World's gone amuck.

www.merriam-webster.com

amuck
noun
'-m'k
less common variant of amok

: an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures

#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-28 08:52 AM | Reply

I run amuck in my mukluks as luck would have it.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-28 04:49 PM | Reply

The death toll is now eleven with 20 injured. The suspect's name has not been released and the appropriate charges have yet to be filed: www.cbc.ca

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-28 04:57 PM | Reply

Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-28 05:37 PM | Reply

Thoughts and Prayers, eh.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-28 05:39 PM | Reply

#14: Thanks for the update, Redial. Did you vote for Jagmeet?

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-28 06:08 PM | Reply

Jagmeet will be lucky if he still has a party by the time today is over.