Attack on kids in US ‘evil’

– A man went on a stabbing spree at a three-yearold’s birthday party at an apartment complex housing refugee families in Boise on Saturday, injuring nine people, including six children, police said on Sunday.

Timmy Kinner, 30, from Los Angeles who had been staying at the complex, has been arrested, Boise police said. He is not an immigrant and went on the rampage a day after being asked to leave by one of the residents, police said.

Kinner was being held without bail at the Ada County jail on 15 charges, including six of injury to a child and nine of aggravated battery, jail records showed.

There was no lawyer listed for Kinner in the records.

He may have wanted to “extract vengeance” for being kicked out by a tenant who took him in, police chief Bill Bones said on Sunday.

The woman who took Kinner in was not harmed and was not at the residence at the time of the attack. Kinner assaulted the children after he was unable to find the woman, police said, adding his motive was still under investigation.

“This was an attack against those who are the most vulnerable, our children. It’s untenable, unconscionable and is pure evil,” Bones said. The children who were attacked ranged in age from three to 12, he said. Three adults were wounded trying to stop the assault. –