Hainault Boy, 14 Killed In Sword Attack – A 14-year-old boy had died after an attacker attacked him with a sword. Police were called immediately to reports of a car crashing into a house and people being stabbed in Hainault at about 07:00 BST.
The boy was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead by the doctors.
Four other people, including two police staff individuals, were injured before the suspect, who had been leaping over people’s garden fences, was cornered and Tasered in a front garden.
Metropolitan police have arrested the responsible 36-year-old man from a hospital where he was being treated for injuries sustained when his car crashed into the house.
His condition meant he had not yet been interviewed, police added.
Louisa Rolfe, Assistant Commissioner, said that their investigations had not discovered any previous contact between the man and the police.
Several footage has been shared on social media showing a man with a long knife in Laing Close.
Ch Supt Stuart Bell acknowledged there would be understandably a desire for answers and an explanation as to what happened, and officers were working to establish the full facts. Further, he added the two Met officers had suffered wounds requiring surgery. He described the officers’ stab wounds as significant but not life-threatening.
The injuries of the two other members of the public were also not believed to be life-threatening.
One of the witnesses, James Fernando, said he saw the suspect ask one of his neighbors to take his phone and tell whoever was on the phone his location.
The 39-year-old said the neighbor soon noticed the sword and started running. As she fled, the woman shouted to another neighbor, a boy on his way to school, who was then struck by the attacker as he turned around, he said.
Moreover, in this difficult time the boy’s family was being supported by specialist officers.
Ch Supt Bell said that some uniformed officers will be present in this area for some days to get any information like footage or recording through the presented cameras.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the incident as shocking and added that “Such violence has no place on our streets.
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