find the cbc's Cameron Macintosh who's
been going through more of what the
witnesses to this crime saw and had to
say
Cameron Nancy many of the passengers say
the images just keep going through their
minds a routine bus ride that turned
into something out of a horror film best
you can describe Garnet Caden remembers
a tall dark man getting on the bus
backer I'm still not sure if he was
Asian or if he was native but uh he was
one of the two for sure
um big guy 6 ft uh 200 some lbs there
was nothing out of the ordinary he sat
in the front very calmly somewhere in
the front put a stuff away didn't say a
word to anybody that was in Brandon
Manitoba as the bus moved East towards
Winnipeg it made one rest stop the man
got off to smoke a cigarette then
changed seats he came right back to the
back and sat next to the victim who's
right behind me and put his things above
and the overhead there and sat down um
he didn't say anything to the victim the
victim was just uh sleeping with his
headphones on he was leaning against the
window sleeping you know doing his own
little thing the victim a young man Cody
Olstead had just been chatting with at a
rest stop I never really took the time
to get to know him but he seemed to be
okay right just a kid like how old would
you figure between 18 and 22 but he
didn't look that old and he'd gotten on
the Boston Brandon no uh I do believe he
got on in Edmonton the bus motored on a
movie playing to pass the time we're
watching Zoro and next thing I know I
hear somebody scream I thought it was a
fist fight at first the one guy was
standing up and you know there was arms
were flailing and I look back and
there's some big guy holding this little
fer up against like between the bathroom
door and the seat I saw the guy had a
big freaking Rambo knife a hunting knife
and it was covered in blood and he was
he just kept going out the guy it was
like it was a robot though he the guy
had you know he wasn't screaming at the
guy or he wasn't in a rage it was just
very
calmly killing the guy um the other guy
was screaming bloody murder uh when I
knew what was going on I ran up as close
as I could to the front of the bus and
screamed at the driver stopped the bus
okay there's somebody getting stabbed
everybody get off the bus now now uh
everyone got off the bus horrified at
what they saw next everyone's staring at
this guy getting getting stabbed to
death uh we eventually all got out uh
moved to the back of the bus Kaden and
the driver tried to barricade the door a
passing trucker stopped seeing trouble
he came to Kaden and the driver with a
couple of crowbars three of us entered
the bus to to see if the victim was
still alive or if there was something
that we could do what was going on in
there and uh we saw the guy was over top
of him and he was clearly cutting the
guy's head off and then then gotting him
uh like an animal The Tall Man then
turned at them the three men got out the
driver locked the bus door from the
outside the man came up to the door he
that's when he he brought the head up
and and he came right calmly right
towards us with the knife in one hand
the head in the other and the three of
us were just standing there in shock
like and he just calmly looked at us
with sunglasses on dropped the head in
front of us like it was no big deal
right he he comes up and he picks a head
up and he's waving it in the window I
just smoked a cigarette with this man
earlier right that the head
and he's shaking it back and forth at
the window and it's right intent right
it's sickening and I was just making
sure I wasn't worried about myself at
the time I was just worried about
everybody else being okay right I threw
up at that point I think the other guy
did too it was I'd never seen anything
like that sad for the family of the
young fell I feel sad for the people
that's in here
because not very many people ever see
somebody to be decapitated right or
experience what we've experienced you
know I feel that I didn't do something
but I feel that you know if I would have
I probably would have been a victim too
if I would have tried to stop him in all
of this none of the witnesses we spoke
to say they saw or heard anything that
could have provoked the attack and at no
time did it appear that the attacker or
the victim knew each other Nancy Cameron
Macintosh reporting from Winnipeg
tonight
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