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Man Charged in Idaho Kids Birthday Party Stabbing

by VOA News

   A man who was evicted from a Boise, Idaho, apartment complex housing
   refugees returned to a little girl's birthday party at the building
   late Saturday and stabbed nine people, including children.

   No one was killed, but four of the victims were in the hospital Sunday
   with life-threatening injuries.

   Timmy Kinner is being held without bail, facing nine charges of
   aggravated assault.

   Boise police gave no details on the nationalities of the victims. They
   have not yet given a motive for the attack, but did say Kinner is from
   Los Angeles and is not one of the refugees.

   "Our city has long stood as a welcoming city -- a place of safety and
   kindness for those fleeing violence and oppression in their homelands,"
   Boise Mayor Dave Bieter said. "The senseless act of one disturbed
   person does not change that."

   Police say Kinner was asked to leave the apartment house Friday because
   of his disturbing behavior.

   But he came back the next day while a 3-year-old was celebrating her
   birthday outside the building and allegedly started slashing guests
   with a knife. The birthday girl is one of the wounded.

   Some of the guests ran inside the apartment house to escape. Police
   found several children huddled in a closet and had to convince them it
   was safe to come out.