Within and outside the perimeters of Lynn Valley Library, police tells sources that there were at least six victims taken to the hospital with stab wounds from the incident.
Global News reports that one person has been confirmed dead from the scene and the suspect has been taken into custody. There were no other people arrested, believing that he acted upon this on his own.
Lynn Valley Library is located in North Vancouver, B.C., and is where the crime took place. On Twitter, there was a video that had been taken and shows who the attacker is, injuring himself as well right before officers come and arrest the perpetrator.
Witness Mary Craver tells Global News: “I was in the library community room and just outside, we hear yelling and everyone stopped and stared, everyone started running out the side door. I just started running too. We ran all the way to the mall.”
Another witness, a neighboring employee of the library, heard a woman scream and then say a man lying on the ground, covering his face and was surrounded by blood.
A witness who only disclosed his first name, Steve, had seen a woman with a seven-year-old-boy that had multiple knife wounds and was ‘bleeding profusely,’
A total of eleven ambulances, on top with two emergency vehicles, came after the first reports of the crime.
The Mayor of North Vancouver, Mike Little, acknowledged and praised those who had ‘quick action and excellent teamwork’ to the paramedics that came to the scene with their services, sending ‘our very best wishes to the victims and their families, who were just out on their regular Saturday business,’
He also mentions that “Lynn Valley and the whole District of North Vancouver is a close-knit, quiet community. An incident like this is deeply upsetting when it happens in the community we love.”