USA: Birthday girl dies after being attacked at a party

The attack which took place on Saturday at a place which houses many refugees, is said to have been motivated by “vengeance” after the suspected attacker was asked to leave the place, a day prior, as a result of bad behaviour.

Seven people are in the hospital with severe injuries.

The suspect has been identified as Timmy Earl Kinner, a citizen of the US.

The nine people who fell victim to the attack belonged to refugee families from Ethiopia, Iraq and Syria.

Six children aged between 6 and 12 were injured which included a three-year-old birthday girl who was flown to Utah for treatment but unfortunately died there.

On Monday, the police said that one child of the nine has been treated and released from the hospital.

Police chief William Bones said, “This was an attack on those who are most vulnerable: our children."

In a statement, he described the attack as, “ untenable, unconscionable" and "pure evil.”

Kinner, aged 30, has been charged with first-degree murder and six counts of injury to a child.

The suspect has a history of criminal activities and is held without bail.

Bones, while interacting with the reporters, said that it wasn’t a hate crime as the evidence didn’t suggest so.

Kinner was staying at the complex with an acquaintance but was thrown out on Friday due to bad behaviour.

He, therefore, returned to, “exact vengeance”, said Bones.

He further added, “It appears from the investigation, it was a matter of where they [victims] lived, not a matter if they knew the suspect.”

Dave Bieter, the Mayor of Boise said that he was, “heartbroken” after news of the child’s death reached him.

He said, “The thought of a happy occasion like a child's birthday party being turned into the darkest of sorrows in such a vicious way is almost unfathomable."

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