Tim was just in front of the restroom, sitting with his headphones on and leaning against the window trying to sleep when a man walked down the aisle and stood beside him. As the bus traveled past Portage la Prairie, about 70km west of Winnipeg, a lot of the passengers tried to get some sleep as it was getting dark. The Legend of Zorro was on the television on the bus. He exchanged pleasantries with some other people on the bus and then put his headphones on to listen to some music. It was a long journey from Edmonton to Winnipeg and he chose to sit alone at a seat at the back of the bus. That day, the 30th of July, Tim got the bus at midnight. He wasn't materialistic and the things he loved the most were listening to music and his pet iguana Little Timmy.

He loved talking to people and hearing about their lives and had many friends. The carnival provided him with some freedom and through the carnival, he had the opportunity to meet many different people each night. He didn't want to be tied to one place and one job for long. He got bored doing different jobs and much preferred to experience and live life instead of just going through the motions. Working at the carnival was the ideal job for Tim at that point in his life. Tim was on his way home to Manitoba after working at a carnival in Alberta. The bus was bound for Winnipeg, Manitoba and the route was along the Yellowhead Highway and through Saskatchewan. Twenty two year old Tim McLean got on to the 1170 Greyhound bus at Edmonton, Aberta, Canada. It stopped, and it took a long time to really want to get up every day.' And it was so maddening to me that the whole world didn't just stop. He said the force already offers help to its members and a five-year mental-health strategy, announced in May, will provide more.'Nothing changed for everybody else. Commissioner Gilles Moreau said the force offers its condolences to Barker’s family. Shari went there and the front door was open and she called for him and he didn’t respond. “He would say the front door will be open and don’t go into the basement. The two women rescued Barker from a suicide attempt in May, but no one got to him in time this past weekend. He sent text messages like ‘I think I’m too broken to ever be fixed’ and he would also say ‘I wish I had cancer because then people would understand.’” “It was a very rapid decline in the last six months. “With Vince Li getting in the paper about his walks, he started getting flashbacks,” she said. Walder said her brother’s treatment was coming along - and while he was still a dog handler, he was stationed at the airport and bus depots instead of responding to slayings - but last fall things began changing. “Today (Wednesday) would have been our 26th anniversary,” she said. Shari also said his illness didn’t just force him to retire - it also cost him his marriage. Shari and Barker’s sister, Wendy Walder, said he did get psychiatric help while with the RCMP and during his short retirement, but they both said the force has to do more to address the stigma attached to its members battling mental illness. Shari Barker, the former officer’s estranged wife, said Wednesday her husband was a sensitive man who did not want to be known as the Greyhound guy.īarker, who had two adult children, retired last month and had been on medical leave since October. Tim McLean was stabbed, mutilated and beheaded by Vince Li, who was later found not criminally responsible because of mental illness.īarker’s family say they’re speaking out about the suicide in the hope more Mounties will seek help. Ken Barker, a recently retired RCMP corporal who was a dog handler, killed himself last weekend after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder for years.įamily and former colleagues say the 51-year-old had already seen almost two decades of horrific crimes when he witnessed the grisly scene on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg in 2008. WINNIPEG-One of the first police officers on the scene of the beheading of a young man aboard a Greyhound bus on a Manitoba highway six years ago has taken his own life.

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