UK: 17-Year-Old Arrested for Stabbing Up Taylor Swift-Themed Yoga Class for Children, Two Dead

They can’t name him because he’s a minor, but according to The Telegraph, he moved to Britain from Rwanda when he was 6.

Mirror:

Police have shared a major new update after multiple people including children were injured and two reported killed at a Taylor Swift dance party.

A teenage boy remains in police custody tonight after at nine people were injured in a knife attack close to a Taylor Swift-themed yoga class. In a press conference held at 6.30pm, Merseyside Police confirmed six children are now in a critical condition with two adults also critically injured. North West Ambulance Service treated 11 people at the scene.

Officers said earlier that the stabbings are not being treated as terror-related, and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. The force confirmed that a 17-year-old boy, from the village of Banks, was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

The teenager, originally from Cardiff, is set to be questioned following the “major incident” at a property in Hart Street, Southport, north of Liverpool, at about 11.50am on Monday.

Of the adults who were critically injured, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said it is the force’s belief thay they were “bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked”. Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said children were attending a Taylor Swift event at a dance school when the offender, armed with a knife, walked inside the premises and started to attack the children. She added: “We believe that the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked. As a mum and a nana, I can’t begin to imagine the pain and suffering that the families of the victims are going through.”

The injured were taken to local hospitals, including Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool, where a major incident has been declared. Eyewitnesses at the scene described seeing bleeding children running from the Hart Space, a community hub that offers classes for expectant mothers, babies and children. A Taylor Swift-themed dance party had been taking place there at the time. One local shopkeeper said: “They had been stabbed here, here, here, everywhere,” he said, pointing to the neck, back and chest. “They were all aged about 10. One of them was really seriously injured.”

I think people are more against the Swifties than they are against Tay herself.

It’s also possible that Rwandans take special umbrage with yoga, and it doesn’t have anything to do with Tay at all.