Hamilton man on trial for random stabbings

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Loujack Cafe is on trial in St. Catharines for a series of random, unprovoked stabbings in 2011.  Cafe is facing four counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault, involving five different victims.

Loujack Cafe had at least three Facebook profiles and police had been monitoring them for months. When they were ready to arrest him in early 2012, they waited until he logged on, then they decended to arrest him for three random stabbings. Including one, which was caught on surveillance cameras on December 12, 2011. Christian Savory was on his way to Tim Hortons when a man came up from behind on a bicycle and landed what the crown called “one, swift, unexpected blow to the back.” Cafe posted the video to his Facebook page and encouraged followers to watch so that the number of views would reach 30 000 for bragging rights.

Then when police interviewed Cafe after his arrest, he admitted to two other incidents that hadn’t previously been linked to him. A stabbing in March 2011 of a man who had been trying to buy marijuana and the vicious beating of a mother who had been walking her young daughter home from the library.

Loujack Cafe is 29 years old and dispassionate in the prisoner box. He wears a dark suit and his hair in wild dreadlocks sticking out all over. The lawyers for the crown are almost finished presenting their evidence and it will be soon up to his lawyers to present a case. The jury has seen posts on Cafe’s page where he calls himself a demi-god and demon and shows off his tattoos, like the lower back bible passage about violence in the kingdom of heaven.

Court heard from a police analyst as well today, of 79 non-fatal stabbings in Hamilton in 2011, only four were considered random stabbings by a stranger, Loujack Cafe is charged in connection with all of them. The trial resumes tomorrow.