Festival Suspect Had Mental Health Team, No Sign He Needed Hospitalization: Ministry

A woman is overcome with grief while leaving flowers at a memorial site for the victims of an attack after a car drove through a crowd killing multiple people in Vancouver on April 28, 2025. The Canadian Press/Rich Lam

British Columbia’s Health Ministry says the man accused of killing 11 people at a Vancouver festival was under the care of a mental health team, but there was nothing to indicate a change in his condition that warranted involuntarily hospitalization.

A ministry statement says the man alleged to have driven an SUV through a crowd of festival goers was “being followed closely” under the Mental Health Act by his Vancouver Coastal Health care team.