The American woman stabbed to death in London’s Russell Square has been named as Darlene Horton. She was treated at the scene but pronounced dead a short time later.
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The woman who fell to the stabbing attack was an American national, Rowley said, adding that those injured were Australian, American, Israeli and British nationals.
Police used a Taser while detaining the 19-year-old suspect and he was later formally arrested on suspicion of murder.
The wife of an FSU professor died in Wednesday’s knife attack in London, University officials confirmed Thursday afternoon.
Rowley said the attacker was a Norwegian citizen of Somali ancestry, but that his background did not appear to be “relevant to the motivation for his actions”.
“The fact that they’re even mentioning terrorism leads me to believe that some of the witnesses and some of the victims may have said that this guy may have made some statements while he was carrying out the attack”, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Bobby Chacon said. “This morning, we have searched an address in North London and will search another in South London”, Rowley told reporters.
She was in the United Kingdom with her husband, psychology scholar Richard Wagner, who was teaching summer classes in London.
But within hours of Bulhan’s arrest police said they had found no evidence of radicalization or links to terrorism.
Police said Thursday that it wasn’t terrorism – but in a city on edge after a summer of attacks elsewhere in Europe, both authorities and London residents initially responded as if it were.
He is said to be suffering possible “mental health issues”.
No details have been released yet about the condition of the five injured, including two women.
“Ellie Cattle, 21, a student staying in a hotel near the square, said she heard police shouting: “‘Put it down, put it down!’
London’s Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital, called for vigilance and urged Londoners to report anything suspicious to the police, who increased their presence in the capital.
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Scotland Yard has warned Londoners they will be greeted by armed police in central London after the attack. We had Russell Square bombing just close by and now this.
