Chinatown Festival Stabbing

• Accused in Chinatown triple stabbing says he was ‘prompted by God’

  Blair Donnelly has admitted to the stabbings, and his lawyer told the judge-only trial that the relevant factor in the incident was his client's mental state at the time.

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  Sep 9, 2025
  
• Accused Chinatown stabber’s trial will hinge on mental state on day of attack: Crown

  Blair Donnelly pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault as his trial began at the Vancouver Supreme Court on Monday.

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  Sep 8, 2025
  
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• Accused Chinatown festival stabber was still considered ‘significant threat’: Documents

  The decision was made this past April in the case of Blair Evan Donnelly, who is a patient at the forensic psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam.

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  Sep 14, 2023
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• ‘Worried he’ll do this to someone else’: Chinatown stabbing victims describe attack

  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.

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  Sep 12, 2023
• Vancouver Chinatown festival stabbing suspect has a long history of violence

  Blair Evan Donnelly said God wanted him to kill his 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie, when they were living in Kitimat in November 2006.

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  Sep 12, 2023
• ‘We are resilient’: Vancouver Chinatown determined to bounce back after triple-stabbing

  Just before 6 p.m. Sunday, a suspect stabbed a man and two women near the Light Up Chinatown main stage at Columbia and Keefer streets.

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  Sep 11, 2023
• Chinatown festival stabbing suspect was a psychiatric patient on day pass: Police

  The 64-year-old, who has been identified as Blair Evan Donnelly, is not a resident of Vancouver, but a patient at a forensic psychiatric centre.

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  Sep 11, 2023