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The video, posted to social media, appears to capture the moment after bystanders had detained a man now accused of barrelling through revellers at a popular Filipino festival in Vancouver, killing 11, including a five-year-old girl and her parents.

What little is known about Kai-Ji Adam Lo聽includes a series of personal tragedies in the months leading up to Saturday night’s聽attack at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival.

Police have said the 30-year-old had no criminal record, but did have a 鈥渟ignificant history of interactions with police related to mental health.鈥�

Those interactions included contact with police the day before the attack, Vancouver police Sgt. Steve Addison told reporters Monday. He did not provide details of the encounter.

Addison did say that police interactions with Lo “did not rise to the level where mental health intervention was required.”聽

A Facebook account appearing to belong to Lo said he was from Taiwan. It also listed University of British Columbia鈥檚 Sauder School of Business under education.聽A spokesperson for UBC, Matthew Ramsey, confirmed Monday that Lo graduated with an arts degree in 2019.

Accused’s brother slain last year

In January 2024, Lo’s older brother, Alexander Lo, was found dead in a house a short drive from the family home in East Vancouver.

A 39-year-old man was charged by Vancouver police with second-degree murder in the elder Lo brother鈥檚 death. The man, Dwight William Kematch, has pleaded not guilty and faces trial.

In a GoFundMe page that was taken down in the wake of the festival attack, Lo asked for help funding his brother鈥檚 funeral expenses. In it, he described the anguish endured by his mother.

鈥淭he realization that he’ll never return home pains both me and my financially strained mother, unable to afford proper funeral expenses,鈥� the post said.

On Facebook last year, Lo posted on his brother’s page: “Still missing you brother.”

The fundraiser also said his mother took out 鈥渟ignificant loans鈥� to build her older son a 鈥渕odest tiny home鈥� that caused 鈥減ainful encounters鈥� with unnamed builders.

A civil suit in Lo and his mother鈥檚 name filed in B.C.鈥檚 provincial court names a company over 鈥減oor workmanship鈥� and other faults in constructing a laneway home at their property years earlier.

Lo posted second fundraiser

In August, Lo posted a new fundraiser, this time to aid his mother, who he said had tried to take her own life.

鈥淭his is due to several things: the sudden passing of my brother and that she has immense bills to pay and has struggled for a long time due to high interest rates,鈥� and worry over losing her home, that post said. Property records show the home was purchased in a cash sale in 2006 for $653,999. It remains listed in Lo’s mother’s name.

It was her son聽who found his mother unconscious and called for an ambulance,聽he wrote.

鈥淚 cannot stand to see her suffer anymore, and there’s nothing I can do to help her.鈥�

That was August 2024.

Public records show Lo鈥檚 mother co-signed a car loan with her son in 2017 for a 2018 Audi Q7.

At the festival site, a black Audi SUV was visible on scene after the attack.

Police said Monday that in the wake of the attack they have searched Lo鈥檚 residence, a two-storey home on a suburban street less than three kilometres from the festival site.

Lo stands聽. Police said Monday they are anticipating that further charges will be laid.