{"id":168949,"date":"2018-07-03T00:31:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T04:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168949"},"modified":"2018-07-03T00:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T04:31:35","slug":"3-year-old-who-was-stabbed-at-her-own-birthday-party-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/03\/3-year-old-who-was-stabbed-at-her-own-birthday-party-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"3 year old who was stabbed at her own birthday party dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kinner is American, and the victims are members of refugee families from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia. (Photo: Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BOISE, Idaho \u2013 A 3-year-old Idaho girl who was stabbed at her birthday party died Monday, two days after a man invaded the celebration and attacked nine people with a knife, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Timmy Kinner is accused of stabbing a group of children and the adults who tried to protect them at the party at an apartment complex that is home to many refugee families.<\/p>\n

Word of the child’s death came at Kinner’s first court appearance, where Ada County Magistrate Judge Russell Comstock told him that he was charged with first-degree murder and other felonies in connection with the Saturday night attack.<\/p>\n

Comstock told Kinner he was \u201can extreme danger to the community\u201d and ordered him held without bond.<\/p>\n

Kinner is American, and the victims are members of refugee families from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia. Boise Police Chief William Bones said the evidence does not suggest the attack was a hate crime.<\/p>\n

The suspect had recently stayed at the apartment complex but was asked to leave Friday over bad behaviour, Bones said.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old appeared in court through closed-circuit video, a common practice for first appearances in Idaho. Wearing a tattered off-white sweatshirt with his arms shackled to his waist, Kinner told the judge he didn’t understand the charges or proceedings. He also said he wanted to represent himself.<\/p>\n

The judge ordered that he be appointed a public defender anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t explain the charges any more clearly than I just did,\u201d he told Kinner.<\/p>\n

Three of the stabbing victims were adults, the others children: the 3-year-old girl who died, two 4-year-olds, a 6-year-old, an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Kinner could be eligible for execution under Idaho law. Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts said her office has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty, saying those \u201chigh-level decisions\u201d are made only after all the facts are in.<\/p>\n

Monday evening hundreds of people turned out at a vigil honouring members of refugee families targeted in the stabbing.<\/p>\n

The gathering was held at City Hall and featured more than a dozen baskets filled with white flowers. A speaker asked for a moment of prayer.<\/p>\n

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