the Lapu Lapu Day Festival Tragedy - the 2025 Vancouver Vehicle Attack

Nighttime

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On April 26, 2025, what was meant to be a celebration of Filipino heritage in Vancouver turned into one of the city’s darkest days. During the Lapu Lapu Day festival, a man drove an SUV into a crowd gathered along Fraser Street, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20 others. It now stands as the deadliest attack in Vancouver’s history. In this episode, we piece together the events of that tragic evening using media reports and eyewitness accounts. You'll hear from those who were there, from those who responded, and from the community left in shock. This is the story of the Lapu Lapu Day festival tragedy Links: confirmed fundraisers to support the victims: https://www.gofundme.com/en-ca/c/act/vancouver-festival-tragedy-donate-or-fundraise Subscribe to the show: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/subscribe Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners, Jordan here.
0:01.9	I just want to let you know that you can listen to nighttime early and ad-free on Amazon music, include it with Prime.
0:13.0	You are listening to the Nighttime Podcast.
0:23.6	Hello, listeners. Tonight, I have a horrific and still developing story to share with you.
0:29.6	And it's one that I fear many Canadians have missed. It involves a mass casualty event that occurred just two days before Canada's federal election.
0:38.3	At a time when our country's media attention was directed towards Ottawa in the subtly shifting election poll results,
0:44.3	something horrifying happened at a Vancouver Filipino community celebration on a closed-to-traffic street that was lined with food trucks serving Filipino cuisine to the crowd of
0:54.9	concert goers, a 30-year-old man driving a black SUV entered the closed street and accelerated
1:01.2	into the crowd of pedestrians. The result is being described as Vancouver's darkest day.
1:07.8	Tonight, in this episode of nighttime, I'm going to take you along with me as I do my best
1:11.6	to understand what happened, what events may have led up to it, and perhaps most importantly,
1:16.9	what we can do to protect society against people who seek to do harm on innocent people.
1:22.1	Our topic is the 2025 Vancouver vehicle attack that led to the tragedy at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival.
1:29.9	This is the darkest day in our city's history. A growing memorial in East Vancouver at the
1:35.5	site of an unprecedented tragedy where a vehicle plowed into a crowd of festival goers Saturday
1:41.1	evening. Vancouver police say 11 people are dead, ranging in age from 5 to 65 years old.
1:48.0	The death toll could rise with dozens more injured.
1:51.0	So far, 30-year-old Kai G. Adam Lowe is facing eight murder charges.
2:04.6	To start our discussion here, let's learn a little bit about Lapu Lapu Day. If like me, you were unfamiliar with this event,
2:07.6	Lapu Lapu Day is a celebration named after a historical Filipino leader,
2:12.6	and the day is meant to celebrate Filipino pride, community, respect, and independence.
2:18.6	Back in 2003, British Columbia became the first Canadian province to officially declare
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