Perp taken into custody.
Via Idaho Statesman:
Refugee families at a low-income apartment complex were attacked Saturday night by a man who stabbed nine people — more than any other attack in Boise’s history, police said. Four of them suffered injuries that police called life-threatening.
A 30-year-old man was quickly taken into custody at gunpoint, police said. All of the victims were taken to a hospital.
Boise Police Chief Bill Bones hinted that some victims may be children: “The age range of the victims varies dramatically, and it’s affected all aspects of the families within the apartments,” he said.
The motive for the attack was not immediately known, and neither was the relationship between the suspect and the victims, Bones said at an 11 p.m. news conference. It also was not immediately clear whether all of the victims were refugees.
Police said officers were dispatched at 8:46 p.m. to a report of a man attacking victims with a knife at the Wylie Street Station Apartments, on Wylie Lane behind a Thriftway Home Center store southeast of Collister Boulevard.
Bones said officers were told that the suspect fled north toward State Street, and they located him “almost immediately.” They then found victims inside apartments and in the parking lot.
“It’s a single, evil individual who attacked people with no provocation that we’re aware of,” Bones said.
UPDATE:
Via Fox News:
Nine people were injured in a mass stabbing in an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, on Saturday night, with four of the victims reported to be in critical condition, officials said.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News on Sunday 30-year-old Timmy Earl Kinner has been arrested in connection with the attack. Kinner has been charged with 9 counts of battery-aggravated assault, and 6 counts of injury to a child, according to jail records.
Kinner is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, sheriff’s officials told Fox News.