The suspect has had violent interactions with police in the past.
Police are releasing more details about the triple stabbing that marred the end of Vancouver's Light Up Chinatown event this weekend.
The victims are a man and a woman in their 60s from Burnaby and a woman in her early 20s from Vancouver. All three received serious but not life-threatening injuries."I was maybe 20 feet away and didn't see it," said Carol Lee of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, which organized the festival. "There wasn't much to see if you weren't right there, and I'm very grateful for that.
"He has had contact with police in the past but not here in Vancouver," Palmer said. "We have no VPD records of this person." The incident is still under investigation and central to that is what motivation the suspect had for the attack.He noted it could possibly be a hate crime, but it's unclear right now. It also appears to be a stranger attack.
"After putting on a very successful Light Up Chinatown, this is not how we thought it would end," she said, calling the attack "utterly devastating and heartbreaking." That said, Eng also noted the attack may be indicative of what the community has faced in recent years.
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