Yannick Bandaogo, 28, has been charged in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in North Vancouver, B.C.
On March 27, 2021 at around 1:40 p.m., the North Vancouver RCMP and other emergency responders were called to the Lynn Valley library for reports of a stabbing. Officers arrived on scene to find multiple victims with stab wounds. Six individuals sustained stab wounds of varying severity and one woman in her late twenties succumbed to her injuries and died. The remaining victims were transported to hospital for non-life threatening emergency medical care. One man was arrested by police at scene and he remains in police custody.
On March 28, 2021, 28-year-old Yannick Bandaogo was charged with second-degree murder. His background, history in BC and relationship to the victims, if any, is still being determined.
Last name indicates it is possible he may be a native of Burkina Faso, a country roiled by Islamist insurrection and whose population is 61% Muslim and 28% Christian, the rest being Animist, according to the CIA World Fact Book.
No word yet on a motive.
