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Vancouver Festival Attack Victim Files Class-Action Bid Alleging Failures by City and Health Authority

Certification would let victims pursue claims as a group.

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A photograph of Kira Salim is seen surrounded by flowers and candles during a vigil on a provincial day of mourning for the victims of the vehicle-ramming attack at the Filipino community's Lapu Lapu Day festival last week, in Vancouver, on Friday, May 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Overview

  • Victim John Lind filed a notice of civil claim this week in B.C. Supreme Court seeking class-action certification and naming the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Coastal Health, and accused driver Adam Kai-Ji Lo.
  • The claim alleges Vancouver Coastal Health let Mr. Lo remain on extended leave despite worsening delusions and concerns about insufficient antipsychotic medication, citing police contacts and other pre-attack behavior as untested allegations.
  • It also alleges the city misclassified the Lapu-Lapu Day festival as low complexity, failed to dedicate a police deployment, and relied on wooden sawhorse barricades that did not stop the SUV.
  • The city and the health authority declined comment, and they have about three weeks to respond to the Oct. 23 filing.
  • Mr. Lo remains in the provincial forensic psychiatric hospital and has been ruled fit to stand trial on 11 second-degree murder and 31 attempted-murder charges, with the province saying a public inquiry could follow if key systemic questions persist.