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Legal Arguments Conclude in Fitness Hearing for Vancouver Festival Attack Suspect

A court ruling on fitness to stand trial is now pending.

Kai-Ji Adam Lo appears via video in B.C. Provincial Court during an Aug. 22, 2025 hearing on his fitness to stand trial.
Debris is seen on East 43rd Avenue in Vancouver, where a vehicle drove into crowd at a Lapu Lapu Day festival the night before, on Sunday, April 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam
People leave flowers and pay their condolences at a memorial for the victims after the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy.

Overview

  • Adam Kai-Ji Lo faces 11 counts of second-degree murder after an SUV was driven through a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver.
  • Defence lawyer Mark Swartz and Crown prosecutor Michaela Donnelly delivered closing submissions following expert testimony.
  • Forensic psychiatrists Dr. Robert Lacroix and Dr. Rakesh Lamba testified over two days last month in the provincially supervised hearing.
  • A court-ordered publication ban restricts reporting of the hearing evidence, and a media consortium that includes The Canadian Press has applied to have it lifted.
  • Lo, 30, appeared by video in provincial court for Friday’s session, with decisions on fitness and the publication-ban challenge to be scheduled.