When she closes her eyes, Shaw sees Li holding up McLean’s head, “taunting police” from inside the locked bus. Part of McLean’s heart and his eyes were never found. Li stabbed the 22-year-old carnival worker dozens of times, carving up his body and scattering it around the bus. She, like others who witnessed the horror that July night, can’t get the bloody images out of her head. That unfolding nightmare haunts Shaw to this day. “I just freaked out,” said Shaw, who left all her things on the bus and clamoured for the door.
She looked behind her and saw Vince Li stabbing Tim McLean repeatedly. She quickly realized it was anything but. “I thought it was just a joke,” said Shaw, speaking publicly about her ordeal for the first time from London, Ont. She worried about making her connection in Winnipeg.Īll of a sudden a passenger rushed past her yelling for the bus driver to stop. She and the other passengers settled in to watch the movie Mask of Zorro. WINNIPEG - A year ago, Kayli Shaw boarded a Greyhound bus for a long cross-country journey from Edmonton to her home in Ontario.
