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A firefighter paramedic in Missouri was killed in the line of duty on Sunday after he was allegedly stabbed in the back of an ambulance while transporting a patient to the hospital. Kansas City Fire Department Fire Medic Graham Hoffman, 29, died on Sunday a few hours after he was stabbed in the chest by a patient being taken to the hospital following a routine medical call from police, the city of Kansas City said in a news release. Hoffman’s partner “initiated a crew emergency” after the stabbing and additional fire and police units responded to the scene, the city...

One of the surviving roommates of the four University of Idaho students allegedly killed by Bryan Kohberger didn’t immediately call police because she thought her friend was passed out drunk – not realizing she was likely already dead, a new court ruling reveals. After a night out partying, Dylan Mortensen “heard strange noises and crying” before opening her bedroom door and seeing “a man dressed in black with a ski mask on walking by her bedroom door,” around 4:00 a.m., according to a new decision by Boise District Court Judge Steven Hippler. Mortensen then got on the phone with the...

28-year-old Jackson Oltmanns said he was stabbed by someone he was trying to help overnight on Sunday. Oltmanns was waiting on a to-go order at a Waffle House located off West Rendon Crowley Road in South Fort Worth when he says someone knocked on his car window asking for money. Oltmanns decided to order the man some food. The Fort Worth Police Department later identified the suspect as Quindarius Cartwright. "He told me he was just trying to get some food, you know, acting out of my good nature and just trying to be nice," said Oltmanns. "I opened my...

A Texas high school star athlete was stabbed in the heart and left to die in his loving twin brother’s arms following a fight over a seat at a track meet, the boy’s heartbroken father said. Austin Metcalf was attending a track and field championship between other area schools at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, when the fatal attack happened on April 2. Metcalf, a junior at Frisco ISD’s Memorial High School, was in the stands at the stadium when a confrontation broke out between the teen and 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony. Anthony, a senior at Centennial High School, was allegedly...

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed steps from a Bronx high school in a violent clash Wednesday morning – one day after a 17-year-old was busted inside his school with a loaded gun, cops and sources said. The younger teen was knifed once in the stomach – apparently by another teen who jumped him around 8:45 a.m. across from John F. Kennedy High School on Terrace View Avenue in Marble Hill, police said. The young assailant ran off, and the injured teen was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. In an unrelated incident around 10:15...

A knife-wielding teenager is facing felony charges after stabbing another youngster during a heated dispute inside of a Long Island Macy’s, cops said. The argument between two 17-year-old boys inside of the department store at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream ended when one of them whipped out a blade around 12:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Nassau County Police Department. The teen stabbed the victim twice, once in the arm and once in the back, then tried to run from the grisly scene, police said. The victim was taken to an area hospital in stable condition, according to authorities....

Say what you like about Axel Rudakubana, the slaughterer of three English girls under ten years old, but - unlike the British Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Liverpool Police and most of the court eunuchs in the UK media - he appears to be an honest man: It's a good thing those children are dead... I am so glad... I am so happy. He has always been entirely upfront about such things, telephoning Britain's so-called "Childline" and asking them: What should I do if I want to kill somebody? Judging from his many interactions with "the authorities" (including with...

Two men were stabbed within the city’s subway in separate Wednesday morning attacks as transit violence spilled over into the new year, cops said. A 30-year-old man got into an argument with another commuter on the No. 1 train platform at 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway around 9:30 a.m., when his rival knifed him once in the arm, authorities and sources said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he was listed in stable condition. It’s unclear whether the two men knew each other. The attacker took off and no arrests have been made.

A 13-year-old boy was stabbed in the back during a broad-daylight fight with a teen rival steps away from his Brooklyn school on Thursday, according to sources and police. Violence erupted when the two started feuding up the block from the Eagle Academy for Young Men at Ocean Hill around 3:45 p.m. on Roosevelt Place and Atlantic Avenue in Brownsville, police said. His 13-year-old attacker then slashed him in the lower back before fleeing the scene, according to the sources. The victim, who attends the Eagle Academy, collapsed on the ground, sources told The Post.

The first day of London’s annual Notting Hill Carnival saw at least 38 arrests, multiple knives seized, and a man stabbed, prompting police to enact stop and search powers. Notting Hill Carnival, the two-day multicultural Afro-Caribbean street party dating back to the 1960s, once again experienced an outbreak of violence as the festivities began on Sunday. At the time of this reporting, London’s Metropolitan Police said that they made 38 arrests and recovered four knives. In a statement, the police force said that a man believed to be in his 20s was stabbed, though thankfully his injuries are said to...

🚨 At least 9 people stabbed at ‘Festival of Diversity’ in Solingen, Germany. The attacker has been described by eyewitnesses as an ‘Arab man’. Several fatalities reported. 🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/xlI3bseqid — Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) August 23, 2024

Two teenage boys were stabbed early Thursday in an argument aboard a train in the Times Square subway station, police said. A 15-year-old male was stabbed in the hand and a 16-year-old male was stabbed in the abdomen during the altercation, which unfolded just before 7 a.m. on the NQR train line, police said. The victims knew the suspect before the incident, police sources told The Post. The two teens were taken to Bellevue Hospital and are in stable condition, police said.

A London bus passenger was stabbed by a fellow commuter after asking his assailant to take his feet off the seats, the latest in a week of knife attacks in the capital. The victim, who was in his 50s, was attacked on a bus in Croydon, south London, the Daily Telegraph reports. Detectives have issued a picture of a suspect they want to speak about the incident. The attack took place at around 3am on June 4 after the suspect boarded and put his feet up on the seats. The victim confronted him and an argument followed. Khan’s London: 43...

CHICAGO — A California man is charged with attempted murder, accused of attacking a 71-year-old woman with a knife outside Union Station on Wednesday afternoon. Wilson Barreno, 25, of Oakland, will appear before a judge for a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Friday. Chicago police said Barreno is the man who attacked the woman from behind as she walked her dog in the 200 block of South Canal just before 2 p.m. Police said he stabbed her with a sharp object, leaving her in critical condition. The woman suffered stab wounds to her neck and back, officials...

A 41-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the arm on a Bronx subway train Wednesday afternoon as it rumbled into the station, authorities said. The victim was knifed in the right arm while on a southbound 2 train at 3 p.m. right before it arrived at the Jackson Avenue 2/5 station in Melrose, according to the NYPD. The wounded man hurried off the train and begged a station agent to call 911, cops said.

An election candidate in Germany was stabbed in the head and stomach on Tuesday night after confronting a gang of men tearing down election posters, the second stabbing of a right winger in a single German city in four days. 62-year-old Alternative for Germany (AfD) council election candidate Heinrich Koch was stabbed in Mannheim on Tuesday. German newspaper Die Welt reports the right-wing campaigner was cut on the ear and stomach by the assailant and was taken to the hospital. The injuries are not life threatening but required stitches.

Wild surveillance video captures the moment a maniac bashed a Queens bike shop worker over the head with a helmet — before he was stabbed by another man who intervened, according to police. The melee began just before 1 p.m. Monday when the 35-year-old man flew into a rage outside the Fly E-Bike shop on 42nd Street near Broadway in Astoria, authorities said. Footage obtained by The Post captured the moment the brute – who appeared to have been yelling at the 28-year-old worker – suddenly walloped him over the head with the helmet. A second later, another man sprinted...

pair of 15-year-old boys were stabbed outside a Bronx McDonald’s Wednesday afternoon — the latest teens caught up in a troubling spate of youth violence in the Big Apple. One of the young victims was knifed in the chest, while the other was slashed on the hand in front of the fast food restaurant at 1600 Boston Road in Charlotte Gardens just before 4 p.m., according to police. The youths were rushed by EMS to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi with non-life threatening injuries, cops said. Police said it’s unclear what led to the bloodshed, and the attacker was in the...

The dramatic moment cops raced to save K9 Enzo who was stabbed in the line of duty by a violent murder suspect has been revealed in new bodycam footage. Three-year-old Belgian Malinois, Enzo, was stabbed multiple times by suspected murderer Thurman Lowe, 64, in downtown Las Vegas on March 29. The dog's Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department handler can be heard on bodycam reassuring him, 'you did so good, buddy. You're a good boy.' Enzo was rushed to a vets and then flown by helicopter to another hospital where he could receive more specialist care. He survived the attack and...

Two New Jersey officers were attacked after responding to a 911 hang-up call, police said. The attack occurred Sunday night as officers responded to a 911 hang-up call in Galloway Township, New Jersey, according to the police department. 10 Philadelphia reports that the call brought two officers to a home on Cresson Avenue, where they were attacked as they investigated the call. The attacker injured both officers — one suffered a head injury and the other was “stabbed in the face.” The attacker has been caught, and both officers were treated at the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, although ABC 6...