A 28-year-old man was charged Sunday with second-degree homicide.
The Built-in Murder Investigation Workforce (IHIT) stated Yannick Bandaogo is in police custody after present process surgical procedure for self-inflicted wounds.
Police haven’t named the girl who died, however stated she was in her 20s.
Six others have been injured within the assault on the Lynn Valley Public Library. Police stated their accidents range in severity and all six are anticipated to outlive.
In a written assertion, Sgt. Frank Jang stated police deliberate to carry a information convention immediately. IHIT investigators spent Sunday combing the realm for proof and interviewing witnesses, he stated.
Supt. Ghalib Bhayani of the North Vancouver RCMP stated the division shares “the neighborhood’s grief and outrage.”
“Lynn Valley Library is a peaceable place. A spot the place our neighborhood involves be taught and our kids come to discover.”
Susie Chant, member of the B.C. Legislature for North Vancouver-Seymour, stated she arrived on the scene shortly after
paramedics on Saturday.
“I noticed victims being stabilized, folks making an attempt to assist one another to be calm,” she stated in an interview on Sunday, after laying a wreath outdoors the library.
The pile of flowers and wreaths left simply outdoors the warning tape cordoning off the crime scene grew all through the day as residents stopped by.
“I believe this simply so illustrates how a lot of a neighborhood we’re,” Chant stated. “Lynn Valley in particular, and North Van in
common, is a spot the place the neighborhood cares for one another and desires to do the best factor.”
Mayor Mike Little from the District of North Vancouver can also be anticipated to attend Monday’s information replace.
