Police spoke on Monday in regards to the stunning crime exterior the Lynn Valley Library Monday at a information convention carried stay.
A 28-year-old man was charged Sunday with second-degree homicide. The Built-in Murder Investigation Staff (IHIT) stated Yannick Bandaogo is in police custody after present process surgical procedure for self-inflicted wounds.
Insp. Michelle Tansey, appearing officer-in-charge of IHIT, stated police are nonetheless making an attempt to uncover a motive for the crime.
“I understand that it is a profound and tragic incident,” Tansey stated. “IHIT is dedicated to finishing a full and full investigation, leaving no stone unturned.”
They’re additionally making an attempt to grasp why Bandaogo got here to B.C. and North Vancouver, the place he appears to don’t have any ties. Police are uncertain when he arrived in B.C.
Bandaogo, Tansey stated, has no fastened tackle. He has ties to Quebec and a legal historical past there together with violent crimes. She stated he had excellent warrants in Quebec and Winnipeg.
Tansey was requested if radicalization was an element and she or he stated there was no indication it was. She stated psychological well being is all the time examined as an element. “The whole lot is being assessed at this level.”
Tansey stated Bandaogo made a primary courtroom look Monday and should make one other look later this week.
‘Lynn Valley Library is a peaceable place’
Tansey stated the victims are 5 girls and one man ranging in age from 22 to 78 years outdated.
Police haven’t named the girl who died, however stated she was in her 20s. Tansey stated the sufferer’s household has requested for privateness.
Six others had 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 IHIT investigators spent Sunday combing the world for proof and interviewing witnesses.
Supt. Ghalib Bhayani of the North Vancouver RCMP stated the division shares “the group’s grief and outrage.”
“Lynn Valley Library is a peaceable place. A spot the place our group involves study and our youngsters 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 exterior the library.
The pile of flowers and wreaths left simply exterior the warning tape cordoning off the crime scene grew all through the day as residents stopped by.
“I feel this simply so illustrates how a lot of a group we’re,” Chant stated. “Lynn Valley in particular, and North Van on the whole, is a spot the place the group cares for one another and needs to do the precise factor.”
Mayor thanks bystanders, first responders
District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little supplied due to bystanders who intervened to assist the injured and to first responders who shortly arrested the suspect.
He stated a wellness and resiliency centre has been established at Karen Magnussen Neighborhood Recreation Centre to supply sources to folks affected by the assault, together with these needing grief counselling.
“Nobody expects to be confronted with violence whereas going about their day in a civic plaza exterior a library,” Little stated. “It is an absolute shock.
“I do know our group will proceed to face robust and help each other. That is simply how North Vancouver is.”
