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Lynn Valley stabbing accused makes 1st court appearance

Yannick Bandaogo is charged with second-degree murder related to a series of stabbings in North Vancouver on Saturday that left one woman dead and six others injured.

Yannick Bandaogo charged with 2nd-degree murder after attacks in North Vancouver that left 1 dead, 6 injured

A court sketch shows a man with dark hair wearing a white vest in a prisoner's box.
Yannick Bandaogo, 28, appeared in North Vancouver provincial court on April 1, 2021. Bandaogo is accused of second-degree murder in connection with stabbings at the Lynn Valley library that left one person dead and six injured. (Felicity Don)

The man accused ofkilling one person in Saturday's stabbingsat the Lynn Valley Library had his first appearance in North Vancouver provincial court Thursday morning.

Yannick Bandaogo, 28,is charged with second-degree murder.

He was arrested at the scene of the attacks, in whicha woman in her late 20s died and six other peoplewere seriously injured.

Bandaogowore white prison garb in the video appearance.

Judge Patricia Janzen urged him to apply for counsel and a French language trial before adjourning the matter until 2 p.m. PT.A French interpreter translated for the accused.

On Monday, Bandaogo refused to leave his cell where he's been in isolation due to COVID-19, since he wasarrested. As a result, he's hadno access to a telephone and hasno lawyer yet.

Investigators have said there is no evidence to link the accused to any of the victims and that he seems to have hadlittle connection to North Vancouver or the Lynn Valley area.

Police in North Vancouver arrest the stabbing suspect on March 27. (Submitted by Rylan Harvey)

The dead woman has not been publicly identified. The five women and one man who were hurt have varied injuries. They range in age from 22 to 78 and all are expected to survive.

Bandaogo has a history of run-ins with police elsewhere.

A person in black plants and a blue jacket holds a red umbrella as they place a bouquet of flowers on a pile of tributes on a concrete sidewalk. A yellow sign that says
People lay flowers at a makeshift memorial outside of the Lynn Valley Library in North Vancouver, B.C., on March 28. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

In January, he was sentenced in Winnipeg to 160 days of time served and one year of supervised probationafter admitting to threatening to stab two city employees.

Last year, in Quebec, he failed to appear in court on two occasions, resulting in warrants being issued for his arrest.In September 2019, Bandaogo had pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon causing bodily harm, also in Quebec.

A year earlier, he was sentenced to one month in jail for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest in Longueuil, Que., a suburb of Montreal. He was also sentenced to four months for assault causing bodily harm, and three months in connection with two other assault cases.

Corrections

  • An earlier version of this story stated the woman who died was 20 years old. In fact, she was in her late 20s.
    Apr 01, 2021 4:16 PM PT

with files from Yvette Brend