上周末，温哥华唐人街的庆祝活动变成了一宗袭击案件，一对60多岁的夫妇当时就在现场，而且遭到攻击。而作案者落网后被发现前科累累并多次获释，BC省省长表示，对此非常愤怒。

据globalnews报道，这对夫妇在上周日早上和往常一样吃完早餐，然后决定今天要去干什么。“我们想，这种节日活动应该很多人参加，我们会是安全的，” 老人说道。

当天他们去了唐人街的Light Up Chinatown festival节日庆祝活动后，原本打算早点离开，但是在听说有一位歌手要上台演唱后，他们决定看完这场从下午5点钟开始的演出后再离开。

“很不幸的是，我们留下了，” 他说道。这起随机捅人案就发生在下午6点左右。

接着在他意识到发生了什么事之前，听见太太问，“怎么回事”，然后她就从背后被刺中了。

“然后我转过身，我想着，那时候这个人可能也在试图袭击我，于是我转过身，他没刺中我的背，把我的手臂划伤了，” 他说道。“我不确定，他是否还想着试图刺向我的胸口。”

当时老人试图站起来，嫌犯又试着再刺向他。他想踢开嫌犯，但是跌倒了，摔伤了膝盖，这时嫌犯跑走了。

周一时，温哥华警方表示，64岁的嫌疑人Blair Evan Donnelly已经被逮捕，并被控3项严重伤人罪。现在仍被拘留中。

值得一提的是，警方表示，Donnelly自2006年被判二级谋杀自己16岁的亲生女儿之后，因为精神问题不用负刑事责任，随后一直住在一家精神医院内。而唐人街案发当天，他是在获得了一天外出的批准之后，突然袭击了庆祝活动现场的3个人。

“我很害怕，” 老人的妻子说道。“我一直盯着这个穿红色T恤的男子，因为我担心他也会对其他人做同样的事。”

她表示，该男子在袭击前或过程中都没说任何话。同时她还质疑，为什么当天嫌犯会在无人监护的情况下被批准外出。

他也质疑，为什么作案男子当天会被允许单独外出。“这个男子在没有人陪同的情况下，来到社区，并造成了毁灭性的影响。我难以理解，在亲手杀了自己女儿之后，他于2009年被释放出去，又刺伤了其他人。然后最近又在没有陪同的情况下，去买了武器，来到唐人街继续伤人。为什么这种事会发生？”

他还表示，“政府将确保有专门的人员来调查这起案件，查清为什么会做出单独释放他的决定，以及这次事件如何发展成现在这种境况的。”

政府已经在采取行动，他补充说。

对于遇到袭击的老人来说，他觉得司法系统已经完全崩溃。

他们希望对这类暴力违法者有更多监管，“为什么像Donnelly这样的人可以获得白天外出的批准？司法系统需要做出改变。”

“首先要关注的重点是社区安全，以及社区内的人。”

现在这对夫妇出门都有点害怕，要时刻提防着周围的情况。“我以前从没有这种感觉。”

‘Worried he’ll do this to someone else’: Chinatown stabbing victims describe attack

 Amy Judd & Christa Dao  Sept 12, 2023 

https://globalnews.ca/news/9956416/chinatown-stabbing-victims-story-attack-stabbing/

A married couple in their 60s began their Sunday morning just like any other — breakfast and deciding on their plans.

By the end of the day, they had become victims of a random stabbing attack at the Light Up Chinatown festival.

Global News is not revealing their names or identities to protect their safety.

“We think, OK, because it’s a festival (with) lots of people and it’s crowded, so we will be safe,” the husband told Global News.

They were actually going to leave earlier but heard that there was going to be a singer they wanted to see perform at 5 p.m.

“Unfortunately, we stayed,” he said.

The stabbing took place around 6 p.m.

 

2:20Man charged in Chinatown festival attack has long history of violence

His wife told Global News that just at the end of the program, that’s when the attack took place with a young woman in her 20s, who was nearby, getting attacked first.

Her husband said the young woman yelled out something in Chinese.

Then before he knew what was happening, his wife said “what happened?” as she had just been stabbed in the back.

“And then I turn around. I think that at that time, the guy was trying to attack me on the back too, that’s why, when I turned around he missed my back and got me on my arm,” he said.

“Also, I think, I’m not sure, he tried to stab me in my chest too.”

He said when he tried to stand back up, he said the suspect tried to stab him again. He tried to kick him but he fell and hurt his knee and that was when the suspect ran away.

On Monday, Vancouver police Chief Const. Adam Palmer said Blair Evan Donnelly was out on a day pass when he stabbed three people in an unprovoked attack at the Chinatown festival.

Donnelly, 64, was on a pass from the psychiatric hospital, Colony Farm, where he has been since he was found not criminally responsible for the second-degree murder of his daughter in Kitimat in 2006.

The wife of the couple attacked said she didn’t know anything had happened until she felt something painful in her back.

“At that time, I touch my back, I feel wet,” she said, “so I thought maybe I got injured.”

Her husband said he was going to try and chase the suspect but he saw his wife was bleeding so he stopped to put pressure on her back wound to stop the bleeding.

“At the beginning, I just feel that someone hit behind me and I feel something, but I don’t know what hit me,” his wife said.

“You feel that something is hitting you. But when I stand up and (the suspect is) not just in front of me, I don’t know.”

Vancouver police officers were quick to come to the trio’s aid, administering first aid until an ambulance arrived.

It is unclear what they were stabbed with but the wife thinks it was a metal file. That has not been confirmed by police.

The couple were not even sure a young woman had also been struck until the police grouped the three of them together.

“I’m feeling scared and (in shock),” the wife said. “I just keep looking (for the) man wearing the red shirt as I’m worried he might do (something) to somebody else.”

She said the man never said anything to them before or during the attack.

She also questioned as to why Donnelly was out on a day pass unescorted.

 

2:02Furor over Chinatown stabbing suspect’s day pass from Coquitlam facility

British Columbia Premier David Eby said Tuesday he is “white-hot” angry over what happened in Chinatown.

Eby said the decision to release the man boggles the mind and he wants to get to the bottom of how it occurred.

He said the government “will ensure an independent person looks into the specifics of this case. The decision-making process. How we arrived at this awful place.”

That work on that was “already underway,” he added.

However, the husband involved in this case said he thinks the justice system is totally broken.