Boise, Idaho: African American man injures refugee
children in violent knife attack, by Ann Corcoran 7/1/18.
Boise Stabbing: Some Refugee Families Victims in Knife Attack
The
allegedly unprovoked attack happened yesterday at a housing complex that is
popular with resettlement agencies in Idaho.
California “man!” Knife attacker
is in custody. We can rule out white supremacism as a driving force in
the case.
We’ll
see how this strange story evolves tomorrow, but I wanted to get at least this
bare bones story up today.
I
read several stories at major US media outlets, but none had information
that Heavy.com is reporting.
Here
is a bit of their detailed account of what police think happened. No
motive has been discovered at this time.
From Heavy.com:
Timmy
Earl Kinner, a 30-year-old
Los Angeles man, is accused of attacking nine people, including
some refugee families, with a knife at a Boise, Idaho apartment complex. It’s
believed six of the victims were children.
Kinner
is accused of targeting children at a 3-year-old’s birthday party. “The level
of some of the injuries will be negative in a life-altering way” for some of
the victims, said the police chief.
“Preliminary evidence shows the suspect was a temporary resident at the
apartment complex on Wylie Ln and State St. until he was asked to leave on
Friday.
The
suspect, Timmy Kinner, is not a refugee,” police said in a news release on July
1, 2018. “The suspect’s exact motives and reasons for attacking specific
individuals is still under investigation.” Jail records show that Kinner is
accused of multiple counts of injury to a child and aggravated battery.
The
attack, which the police chief described as involving the highest number of
people wounded in a single incident in the city’s history, occurred on the
evening of June 30, 2018. The motive was not yet clear, but the police chief
said it appeared the attacker struck without provocation, and police were not
aware of any tie between the suspect and victims.
Boise has long been known as a magnet city for refugees; in fact, a
National Geographic article in 2016 called it “Boise, Idaho, A Global Home for
Refugees.” According to the City of Boise, the U.S.
State Department gave Boise the designation of “a Refugee Resettlement
Community.
He
said that children “from different continents” were sitting together at a small
child’s birthday party when the attack occurred, and he urged people to help
the Boise refugee community.
The
attacker briefly fled the scene before being captured, and multiple officers
responded to the scene.
Idaho’s refugee population has varied over the years. In the 2000s,
according to Idaho Office for Refugees, “recent arrivals include a large number
of individuals from Iraq, Congo, Burma, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Somalia.” The refugee population in the
state has shifted over the years, beginning mostly with refugees from Southeast
Asia and Eastern Europe in the 1980s.
More
here. See my extensive archive on Idaho here.
More
tomorrow (maybe) on this very bizarre story.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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