‘Worried he’ll do this to someone else’: Chinatown stabbing victims describe attack

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random stabbing attack at the Light Up Chinatown festival.Global News is not revealing their names or identities to protect their safety.“We think, OK, because it’s a festival (with) lots of people and it’s crowded, so we will be safe,” the husband told Global News.They were actually going to leave earlier but heard that there was going to be a singer they wanted to see perform at 5 p.m.“Unfortunately, we stayed,” he said.The stabbing took place around 6 p.m.His wife told Global News that just at the end of the program, that’s when the attack took place with a young woman in her 20s, who was nearby, getting attacked first.Her husband said the young woman yelled out something in Chinese.Then before he knew what was happening, his wife said “what happened?” as she had just been stabbed in the back.“And then I turn around. I think that at that time, the guy was trying to attack me on the back too, that’s why, when I turned around he missed my back and got me on my arm,” he said.“Also, I think, I’m not sure, he tried to stab me in my chest too.”He said when he tried to stand back up, he said the suspect tried to stab him again.

He tried to kick him but he fell and hurt his knee and that was when the suspect ran away.On Monday, Vancouver police Chief Const. Adam Palmer said Blair Evan Donnelly was out on a day pass when he stabbed three people in an unprovoked attack at the Chinatown festival.Donnelly, 64, was on a pass from the psychiatric hospital, Colony Farm, where he has been since he was found not criminally responsible for the second-degree murder of his daughter in Kitimat in 2006.The wife of the couple attacked said she didn’t know anything had happened until she felt something painful in her back.“At that time, I