Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, is now facing eight counts of second-degree murder for the attack at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Festival at around 8pm on Saturday night

Kai-Ji Lo, killed 11 people, leaving dozens injured after driving his SUV in the crowd of attendees at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Festival at around 8pm on Saturday night

Canadian police said more charges are expected

The suspect was ‘known to police in certain circumstances’ and suffered from mental health issues as police ruled out terrorism as a possible motive for the deadly attack

Kai-ji Adam Lo’s mental health had been deteriorating since his brother Alexander Lo was murdered last year and his mother later attempted suicide

He since had dozens of interactions with police, and on the day of the attack, Lo was believed to have been suffering from delusions and paranoia

Motorist Kai-Ji Adam Lo, [photo], is facing eight counts of second-degree murder for the attack at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Festival at around 8pm on Saturday night. Canadian police said more charges are expected

The driver who fatally plowed down at least 11 festival goers has been identified as a 30-year-old man who suffered a severe mental breakdown after his brother was murdered last year and his mother then tried to commit suicide.
Kai-Ji Adam Lo is a 30-year old resident of Vancouver, reportedly with a history of mental health issues, has been charged with multiple counts of murder by Canadian prosecutors after ramming an SUV through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver.
The suspect, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, in the attack which happened around 8pm on Saturday night, killed 11 people aged between 5 and 65. Dozens more were injured.
He faces eight counts of second-degree murder. Police said additional charges are likely.
In the meantime, Lo who was arrested at the scene will remain in custody. 

The driver in the murderous attack has been identified as Kai-Ji Adam Lo, whose brother Alexander Lo, [photo], was found murdered inside a home at around 1am on January 28, 2024

Authorities have previously said that the suspect was ‘known to police in certain circumstances’ and suffered from mental health issues as they ruled out terrorism as a possible motive for the deadly attack.
Kai-ji Adam Lo’s mental health had been deteriorating since his brother Alexander Lo was murdered last year. His mother later attempted suicide. and has since had dozens of interactions with police officers.
On the day of the attack, Lo was believed to have been suffering from delusions and paranoia.
Vancouver police announced Sunday night that his vehicular attack on festival attendees on Saturday night, left 11 people dead, ranging in age from just five years old to 65.
But he has no prior criminal record, and after he slammed his Audi SUV into the crowd Lo reportedly told onlookers ‘I’m sorry’ as families including young children and neighbors from across Vancouver rushed to provide first aid for those in need. 

Kai-Ji Adam Lo’s brother Alexander Lo, [right], was murdered last year January. Their mother, [left], tried to take her own life following his murder

It now seems that Lo suffered his own losses that may have caused him to have a mental breakdown.
His father had died shortly after the family moved into their Vancouver home.
Next his brother, Alexander, 31, was found murdered inside a home at around 1am on January 28, 2024, the Vancouver Sun reports. A suspect, Dwight William Kematch, 39, was arrested at the house and was later charged with second degree murder.
Following the unexpected death, Kai-Ji took to GoFundMe to ask for donations for his brother’s funeral.
‘It pains me deeply to put these words down, but my brother has been taken from us in a senseless act of violence, something we never saw coming,’ he wrote at the time. 
‘Our reality has abruptly shifted. Despite our disagreements, the harsh truth that he’s no longer with us hits me with an overwhelming force.’
‘I’m burdened with remorse for not spending more time with him,’ Kai-Ji continued. ‘I implore you to keep his soul in your thoughts and prayers.’ 

Kai-Ji Adam Lo witnesses said drove his vehicle enter past the barricade slowly before slamming on the gas in an area that was packed with people following a concert held as part of the festival in Vancouver on Saturday night

The vehicular attack killed at least 11 people in downtown Vancouver, Canada on the night of Saturday April 26, 2025 

The fundraiser netted over $9,000 for Alexander’s funeral.
However months later, in August, Kai-Ji was back asking for donations – this time after his mother attempted suicide and ended up in the hospital for a month.
On the crowd funding page Kai-Ji wrote: ‘The unimaginable grief brought upon my mother is something  that is worse than my own sadness. 
‘For she brought him into this world, only for him to leave abruptly, it is a sadness I cannot begin to express.’
‘She lost a son already and is on the verge of losing her home. This has driven her to attempt to take her own life.’

Vancouver police bock the festival venue with cruisers after the vehicular attack on a Saturday night that killed 11 people in downtown Vancouver, Canada

The impact of the crash on Saturday night apparently totaled Kai-Ji Adam Lo’s black Audi SUV [photo]

Members of the public on Sunday morning, view the tragic scene where a man drove a black Audi SUV into the crowd during the Lapu Lapu festival hosted by the Filipino community in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday night.

In the aftermath, Kai-Ji Lo is said to have had several run-ins with police and health care professionals.
According to neighbors, authorities even showed up to the family’s residence within the last two weeks to ask for security footage.
They described how they could often hear Lo screaming inside.
‘He always was yelling with his mom. I don’t know why,’ one of the neighbors said.
‘He is really nervous,’ the neighbor said of Lo. ‘Very- always scared of something happening that might hurt him.’ 
In fact, just hours before Saturday’s attack, a family member reportedly had even contacted a psych ward. 

According to police, 11 people between the ages of five and 65 years were killed. Dozens were injured in the carnage. However, some victims are yet to be identified

Footage from the festival scene later showed dead bodies and injured partygoers lying in a narrow street lined by food trucks. The front end of Lo’s Audi SUV also appeared completely wrecked.
Witnesses have describe how the driver sideswiped another vehicle before he revved the engine and deliberately plowed into the crowd of festival attendees.
As details about Lo’s life were released Sunday night, Canadian officials called for upgrades to available mental health resources.
‘We have a huge need in the province for interventionist mental health services,’ British Columbia Premier David Eby said.

A member of the Vancouver police forensics team on Sunday collects evidence at the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Saturday night

He also noted that when it comes to the Lapu Lapu festival killings ‘it’s important for investigators, or others to go into this with an open mind, to provide answers to the public, to everybody that they find so that we can ensure that we have the systems in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
‘In some cases that may be a change in how the  city does security for events. It maybe a change in  health care response.’

By Sunday morning, investigators ha placed evidence markers along 43rd Avenue in Vancouver where a driver identified as Kai-Ji Adam Lo hours earlier, had killed almost a dozen people by driving his vehicle into the crowd at a street festival

The premier went on to note, ‘We don’t know the story of why or what led up to this man taking the horrific action that he did.
‘There are so many questions that I have,’ he said. ‘There are so many questions that British Columbians have about how that could take place, how we could get to that moment, and as we learn those answers, we’ll take the action that’s necessary to ensure that it can’t happen again,’ Eby vowed.