Warning, the following article is pretty graphic.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/31/greyhound-transcanada.html


July 31, 2008 at 11:36 AM EDT

BRANDON, MAN. — A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence.

The incident occurred on a bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg just before 10 p.m. Wednesday.

A man of about 18 who was sleeping with headphones on was suddenly attacked by his seat mate, according to the man who sat directly in front of them.

He was stabbed repeatedly with a large hunting knife, sending blood spraying across the interior of the bus. The driver quickly pulled over and passengers fled out the front door.

The man then sawed off the victim's head and carried it to the front of the bus.

The two did not apparently know one another. The victim boarded the bus in Edmonton, one witness said, and the attacker boarded in Manitoba.

A standoff with police ensued until about 1 a.m. local time.

One man was taken into custody.

Garnet Caton, 26, was sitting in the seat in front of the attacker.

"I was just reading a book and all of a sudden I heard a guy screaming. I turned around and the guy sitting right beside me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife," he said.

"Right in the throat. Repeatedly."

The man wielding the knife had a shaved head and was wearing sunglasses, he said.

"He looked totally calm. He didn't say a word I don't think to anybody on the bus ... nothing. Just totally calm."

Mr. Caton said most passengers were sleeping at the time and didn't realize what was happening.

"I screamed 'stop the bus!' ... Everybody got the hell off, and people at the front of the bus didn't really understand what was going on. It almost turned into a trample scene there, everybody trying to get off the bus. But the guy didn't care at all. He wasn't concerned with anybody but the guy he was stabbing.

"The guy was totally calm. When he brought the head he looked at us and dropped it. It was like he was having a day at the beach. He couldn't be bothered by anything else."

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the violent attack is a "horrific" incident and his heart goes to the family of the victim.

However, Mr. Day played down the possibility of enacting tough security measures in Canada's bus terminals, similar to what already exists in airports.

“People should always be open to looking at precautionary measures. But let's keep in mind that as bizarre and tragic as this is, it is extremely rare,� Mr. Day said.

He also dismissed talk by some opposition MPs of a “knife registry,� saying that millions of them are bought each year simply for kitchen use. He added that there are already provisions in the Criminal Code against crimes and assaults.

Speaking at a Conservative caucus meeting, Mr. Day said he does not want to jeopardize the investigation, but added he wants to see the killer “convicted in court.�

“We want to make sure that the process is followed as aggressively as possible, a full legal process, and the perpetrator is definitely dealt with the full force of the law,� he said.

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I saw this on the news before I went to work. This is so sad. God be with his family.

I'm thinking the murdered had to be seriously mentally ill. What a crazy random act of violence...it sounds like something out of a horror movie. I've been on a few Greyhound buses and there are always some shady characters riding on it.

Mehn before you behead me u should be Goliath oh. What a wicked behaviour..

...So sad, killer got to be really sick. The sickness was so bad that it pushed him into killing just anybody! Crazy indeed

This story is really scary, it makes me afraid of sleeping
on a bus, train or even a plane. His attitude really proves that he is sick and
need death not help and I can’t understand why one guy with a knife should
scare everyone on the bus. That young pekin was just enjoying his ride and got
his death from Mr. psycho

The suspect was some short asian guy with wife and 2 jobs(one wae mcdonalds)..
wonder what made hin act so?