On 7th September, Monday, a 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after one person died and seven others were injured in stabbings across Birmingham city centre.
The West Midlands Police reported that the suspect was arrested a day after the attack happened over four locations in Birmingham. The suspect is reportedly being held over seven counts of attempted murder. Forensic officers are conducting searches at an end-of-terrace house in a cul-de-sac in Selly Oak, where neighbours said a police raid took place in the early hours.
Officers were first called out on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury. About 20 minutes later they were called to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where a 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt. Then the police were sent to Irving Street, where a 23-year-old man suffered fatal injuries and another man was seriously hurt. They later rushed to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, where a 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men were less badly hurt.
But the police have stated that they are treating the attacks as "random" at this stage.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, West Midlands mayor Andy Street said,
"It's very easy to comment on a police investigation while it's live. I don't intend to fall into that trap. [There are] lots of questions as to what happened during that two-hour period, but there's people making lots of assumptions from things that they quite frankly don't know. We have to see it as a one-off random [incident], and what will define the city is our response to it now," he said.
