A 36-year-old man arrested Tuesday after carrying out a stabbing attack that cost the life of a 14-year-old boy in London was charged Wednesday (May 1) with murder, police announced.
Marcus Aurelio Arduini Monzo, who has dual Spanish and Brazilian nationality, is being prosecuted for the murder of Daniel Anjorin, Scotland Yard said in a press release.
Four other people were injured, including two police officers, so he was also charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of wounding, according to a Scotland Yard statement.
The suspect must be presented to court on Thursday.
Earlier on Wednesday, police in the British capital detailed the itinerary of the attacker, who was quickly arrested.
“Complex” investigation
“We are starting to have an idea of what happened on Tuesday” but the investigation is “complex given the number of crime scenes, forensic evidence, hours of CCTV footage and witnesses to who we need to talk to,” Chief Inspector Larry Smith, in charge of the investigation, explained in a statement.
Tuesday morning, witnesses contacted police after seeing a van crash into a fence in front of a house near the Hainault metro station.
“A 33-year-old man was hit (by the van) then he was attacked by the suspect and was injured in the neck,” detailed the head of the investigation.
A 35-year-old man then suffered “lacerations to his arm” after being attacked at a nearby property, then the suspect attacked a 14-year-old boy, Daniel Anjorin, who died from his injuries shortly after his transport to hospital.
The police, who arrived on the scene “12 minutes after the first call”, first attempted to neutralize the suspect with an incapacitating defense bomb and their electric pulse gun, but without success.
No terrorist motive
Two of them were seriously injured by the suspect, who “fled again before being surrounded by other officers” in a nearby street. He was finally arrested “22 minutes” after the first call to the police.
Injured, he was first taken to hospital and “is now in police custody,” according to the police report.
According to initial checks, he was not known to the police for previous incidents.
The police have ruled out a terrorist motive at this stage.
This attack came against a backdrop of an increase in stabbing attacks in the United Kingdom and two days before local elections in the British capital, where the conservative opposition is very critical of the security record of Labor Mayor Sadiq Khan.
