"I had no odd suspicions about him at all. We would've had no reason to let him go before all this happened." Augert said Li worked since last July and never had any problems with him. "He was very punctual and always cleanly dressed," he told The Associated Press. Vincent Augert, an independent contractor who distributes newspapers in Edmonton, said that Li, was one of his most reliable carriers. Li's employer said in an interview Saturday that he was in shock to learn that his "model employee" has been accused of the grisly attack. Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said there were 37 passengers on the bus at the time. The bloody killing occurred as some passenger were napping and others watching "The Legend of Zorro" on television screens inside the bus. He then severed the man's head, displayed it and began hacking at the body. Passengers said that shortly after they reboarded following a break, the suspect - for no apparent reason - stabbed the man sitting next to him several dozen times as others fled in horror. Vince Weiguang Li, 40, faces second-degree murder charges for the murder of a 22-year-old man, who friends and family identified as Tim McLean. Officers responded to a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 19km from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, after the bloody killing late Wednesday on the Greyhound bus travelling from Edmonton, Alberta to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The RCMP issued a statement saying it was aware that portions of the radio transmission had been leaked to the internet but that it had not given permission to use the tape because they are "operational police communications" that are not meant for public consumption. "Okay, Badger's at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it," he says at the end of the approximately 80-second recording. In the tape of police radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as "Badger" and says he is armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and "is defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak." Photo by AP/Canadian Press.A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked today on the internet. Li then went back to McLean’s body and began severing other parts and consuming some of his victim’s flesh.Alex McLean, uncle of Tim McLean who was killed aboard a Greyhound bus Thursday, surrounded by family members reads a statement from the family today. The driver and two other men had attempted to rescue McLean but were chased away by Li, who slashed at them from behind the locked bus doors. The attacker then decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to other passengers standing outside. Repeatedly.” The bus driver pulled to the side of the road so that he and all the other passengers could exit the vehicle. Garnet Caton, a 26-year-old oil worker who sat one row ahead of McLean, described hearing “a blood-curdling scream,” adding, “I turned around and the guy sitting right behind me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife…. According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing McLean in the neck and chest. McLean “barely acknowledged” Li, then fell asleep against the window pane, headphones covering his ears. Li, described as a tall man in his 40s, with a shaved head and sunglasses, originally sat near the front of the bus, but moved to sit next to McLean following a scheduled rest stop. At 6:55 p.m., the bus departed from a stop in Erickson, Manitoba, with a new passenger, Vince Weiguang Li. He sat at the rear, one row ahead of the toilet. He departed Edmonton on board Greyhound bus 1170 to Winnipeg, via the Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan. At 12:01 p.m., Tim McLean, a carnival barker, was returning home to Manitoba after working at a fair in Alberta. The incident took place near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, traveling the Trans Canada Highway during a trip from Edmonton to McLean’s hometown of Winnipeg. McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized while riding a Greyhound Canada bus. The killing of Tim McLean occurred on the evening of July 30, 2008.
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