Kentville man witnessed gruesome bus decapitation

By Kirk Starratt

kstarratt@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

Intense and sickening was how a Kentville man who witnessed a gruesome decapitation described the scene. Cody Olmstead was travelling on the Winnipeg-bound Greyhound bus late Wednesday when the macabre scene unfolded.

Although The Advertiser was unable to reach Olmstead directly for comment as of press time, online reports from the Canadian Press and the Globe and Mail quote Olmstead as saying he was sitting on the bus having just left Brandon, Manitoba, and was watching Zorro when he heard a scream.

“I look back and there’s some big guy holding this little fellow up between the bathroom door and the seat. And he was moving. It kind of looked like a fight but somebody said a knife, so we all run off the bus – he was getting stabbed,” Olmstead is quoted as saying. “The guy came to the front of the door with buddy’s head in his hands, decapitated. He dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body back up.”

Olmstead said the attacker taunted onlookers and police, waving the decapitated head in the window.

“I just smoked a cigarette with this man (the victim) earlier, the head,” Olstead was quoted as saying on television video and in print, “and he’s shaking it back and forth at the window and it’s…intense right, it’s sickening.”

Twenty-two-year-old Tim McLean of Winnipeg, who was returning home from working at a carnival in Edmonton, was the victim. The RCMP has charged 40-year-old Vince Weiguang Li of Edmonton with second-degree murder.