"We're not sure what the motivation was. It's so random and so violent and so bizarre.... He was ranting about a lot of things and what exactly he was saying I have yet to confirm with investigators."

Constable Jana McGuinness explaining what she knows about the nine attacks by hammer-wielding man, Khalid Alzghoul, along the gay-favorite Davie Street in Vancouver, Canada, just after the city's Gay Pride Parade. (Vancouver Sun)