(CNN) -- A 40-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder Friday in connection with the stabbing and beheading death of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus, authorities said.
Police investigate the scene near Portage la Prairie, Canada, on Thursday.

Police investigate the scene near Portage la Prairie, Canada, on Thursday.

Vince Weiguang Li of Edmonton, Alberta, was to appear Friday morning in the Provincial Court of Manitoba in Portage la Prairie, according to a statement posted on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Web site.

The body of the 22-year-old male victim is to be autopsied Friday, police said. The victim's name was not released.

However, the Canadian Press named the dead man as Tim McLean, 22, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.