Stabbing Suspect Attacked Victims During A 3-Year-Old's Birthday Party
Source: Tribune News
A brutal attack at a Boise apartment complex Saturday night started at a 3-year-old girl's birthday party and ended in the stabbing of nine people, six of whom were children.
Police said a man who had just been forced out of an apartment stabbed all nine with a knife. Authorities said he is Timmy Kinner, 30, of Los Angeles, who has an extensive record involving violent crimes, weapons and drugs in other states. He was arrested and is now in the Ada County Jail.
All nine were refugees from overseas, Boise police said. All nine were hospitalized, and one child was flown to Salt Lake City for medical treatment. "These are victims who in their past homes have fled violence from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia," Police Chief Bill Bones said Sunday.
One day earlier, Kinner had been asked to leave the low-income Wylie Street Station Apartments, where he had been staying with a resident. The complex is on Wylie Lane behind a Thriftway Home Center store on State Street southeast of Collister Boulevard...
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Kinner had been granted access to an apartment for a few days but was asked by its resident to leave because of his behavior, police said. Kinner returned Saturday night to "exact vengeance," first targeting children, then the adults who interceded to protect them. He was attacking any target available, Bones said.
Bones said there is no specific evidence that the stabbings were a hate crime, though police were still investigating. He said Kinner has not been cooperative with detectives. His criminal history is lengthy. In 2008, Kinner was indicted in Tennessee for illegal possession of a semi-automatic handgun and distributing 12 grams or more marijuana, according to court records...
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