WINNIPEG -- A year ago today, Kayli Shaw boarded a Greyhound bus for a long cross-country journey from Edmonton to her home in Ontario.
She was looking forward to seeing her boyfriend and took a seat four rows behind the driver.
The sun was setting as the bus travelled along the flat Trans-Canada Highway that carves across Manitoba.
All of a sudden a passenger rushed past her yelling for the bus driver to stop. Someone was being stabbed.
"I thought it was just a joke," said Shaw, speaking publicly for the first time from London.
She looked behind her and saw Vince Li stabbing Tim McLean repeatedly.
"I just freaked out," said Shaw, who left all her things and clamoured for the door. "I just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible."
That unfolding nightmare haunts Shaw to this day.
She, like others who witnessed the horror that July night, can't get the bloody images out of her head.
Li stabbed the 22-year-old carnival worker dozens of times, carving up his body and scattering it around the bus. Part of McLean's heart and his eyes were never found.
When she closes her eyes, Shaw sees Li holding up McLean's head, "taunting police" from inside the locked bus. She sees police standing outside the bus and firefighters leaning up against emergency vehicles as Li continues defiling McLean.
"It's been hell," said the 23-year-old. "If someone drops a pencil, I'll jump. I'm afraid to get on buses. I have nightmares every night. I can't sleep through the night at all. I barricade myself into my apartment."
Li was found not criminally responsible for his actions in March. He is now locked up in an institution where doctors say he is making progress -- taking his medication, watching movies, playing cards and reading a Chinese edition of the Bible.
Winnipeg lawyer Jay Prober is preparing to file a class-action lawsuit against Greyhound on behalf of passengers. Prober, who is also fighting a lawsuit on behalf of the McLean family, alleges the company didn't do enough to protect the ridership.
The bus line has introduced greater security measures. Passengers boarding in major cities must now pass through metal detectors and check their luggage rather than carry it on board.
While Li is in a mental institution getting the counselling he needs, passengers have been left to grapple with their nightmares virtually on their own, Prober said.
"It's had a severe impact emotionally ... There are some serious issues," he said.
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oh wonderful, he's making progress.:rolleyes:
There should be a new law here introduced, whether insane or not..you still get jail time.
I can only imagine how his parents feel, when their son's
murderer is taking his meds and getting better, while their son was massacred.
There was no excuse not to have him thrown in jail for life.

Life is just to short for drama.