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Bus killer wants to die.


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A man accused of killing, decapitating and eating the flesh of a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada shook his head and said: "Please kill me" when a judge asked him if he wanted a lawyer.Vince Weiguang Li, 40, was otherwise silent, staring at the floor and swaying side to side with hands clenched, as the prosecutor recounted the grisly details of the killing at a court hearing in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
For the rural municipality, see Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (rural municipality).


Portage la Prairie (pronounced /ˈportəʤ la ˈpreri/ 
.Judge Michel Chartier ordered Li to undergo psychiatric tests to see if he is fit to stand trial on second-degree murder charges.Prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn said Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2001, stabbed to death his sleeping seatmate seat·mate  
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A person sitting next to another on a conveyance such as an airplane: "His seatmate was a gray-haired woman with glasses" Anne Tyler. 
, Tim McLean, in an unprovoked attack aboard the bus, which was rolling along the TransCanada Highway about an hour's drive west of Winnipeg.She said there was no link between Li and McLean, who family and friends have said was a 22-year-old carnival worker returning to his Winnipeg home.The bus stopped and other passengers fled. After a six-hour standoff, Li jumped out a window and was apprehended by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Royal Canadian Mounted Police, constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian west. In 1920 the name was changed to the present title. , Dalmyn said.They found a severed ear, nose and mouth in a white plastic bag in his right front pant pocket, Dalmyn said.

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Date:Aug 7, 2008
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