![]() ![]() After arriving on scene, RCMP watched for hours as the perpetrator, Vince Li, 40, desecrated Tim's body inside the bus after the driver and remaining passengers had fled, powerless to stop the man's frenzy. Barker’s death, which “made me re-evaluate personally how I view police officers who say they have PTSD.Episode 191: On the evening of July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian carnival barker was returning home to Winnipeg riding a Greyhound bus when he was viciously stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized by another passenger about 18 km west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. He added he was still “numb” after hearing about Cpl. “We have exactly the same thoughts and fears and revulsion that everybody else does, but we do have a job to do.” There is an immediate need to educate, train, have a peer support program in place and bring awareness to RCMP members on their mental health ![]() Barker who asked his name not be published. “I don’t think I know anybody who said, ‘Gee, I wish I was at the Vince Li incident,’ ” noted a former colleague of Cpl. They found Vince Li, a paranoid schizophrenic, who had decapitated his seatmate, Tim McLean, then cannibalized his body.įor four hours, the officers maintained a cordon as Li paced back and forth inside the bus. Barker and Axa were among those called to the Trans Canada highway near Portage La Prairie after reports of a stabbing on a Greyhound bus. “This partnership, well, it’s very special to me.”īut as one of Manitoba’s few dog handlers, he worked irregular hours, frequently uncovering decaying corpses in the wilderness. I can’t foresee getting out of it any time soon,” he told a community news reporter in 2004. ![]()
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