Rudy Ulap had done everything by the book. He and his wife helped organize Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Festival, an annual event celebrating Filipino culture, using the same approach that worked last year. But this time, the day did not end with cleanup and celebration—it ended with sirens, heartbreak, and 11 lives lost after a car rammed into into the crowd.
“I feel for those people,” Ulap told NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media. “At the end of the day, it was supposed to be a very successful event. It’s just unfortunate that these things happen.”
Ulap and his wife left the April 26 event, held at the intersection of Fraser Street and East 41st Avenue, about an hour before a 30-year-old male suspect with a history of mental illness drove down the crowded street, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more. Some members of the community are now asking what could have been done to prevent it….