Chinatown Stabbing

• Light Up Chinatown! returns to Vancouver 1 year after triple stabbing

  Organizers of this weekend’s Light Up Chinatown! festival are determined to forge ahead following last year’s tragedy at the family-friendly event.

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  Aug 21, 2024
  
• Chinatown triple stabbing suspect ‘calm and cooperative’ on day of attack: report

  But Blair Donnelly had shown the capacity to slide into violent delusions with little warning in the past, the BC Review Board report states.

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  Mar 13, 2024
  
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• Accused Vancouver Chinatown stabber loses ban application

  A B.C. man accused of a triple stabbing in Vancouver's Chinatown has lost his bid to seal a document that identified him as a "significant threat" before he was released.

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  Nov 1, 2023
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• In wake of Chinatown stabbing, victims’ families question psychiatric releases

  Rebecca Mayrhofer and other victim advocates have long sought reform of the system handling offenders deemed not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder.

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  Sep 15, 2023
• Ex-Abbotsford police chief to probe release of man accused in Chinatown stabbings

  Bob Rich's priority will be determining how the man was released from a psychiatric facility against recommendations, and whether there are others in the same circumstance.

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  Sep 14, 2023
• 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
• Eby ‘white-hot’ angry with Chinatown stabbing suspect’s release from psychiatric hospital

  A man and two women were hospitalized after Sunday's triple-stabbing attack at the Light Up Chinatown festival in downtown Vancouver.

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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
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• ‘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
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• 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