A B.C. Supreme Court justice has found a 66-year-old man not criminally responsible for an attack at a Vancouver Chinatown festival two years ago.

Blair Evan Donnelly stabbed and injured three people at the Light Up Chinatown festival in September 2023, while on unescorted leave from a forensic psychiatric hospital.

Instead of going for a bike ride and coffee on Sept. 10, 2023, he went to Home Depot and bought a wood chisel. He then went to the festival.

Donnelly, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, has told the court he was "told by God" to carry out the attacks.

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