A 17-year-old male suspect is in custody in the U.K. for allegedly going on a stabbing spree Monday morning at a children’s dance class.

Two children have died while nine more children were wounded and two adults were wounded, said Serena Kennedy, the chief constable of the Merseyside Police, at a press conference.

Six of the injured children were in critical condition and both adults were in critical condition, she said. All of those who were injured were stabbed.

“We believe the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked,” said Kennedy.

Earlier we held a press conference following the incident that took place in Southport this morning.

Please watch to hear from Chief Constable Serena Kennedy, MFRS Chief Fire Officer Phil Garrigan and NWAS Cheshire and Merseyside Head of Service Dave Kitchin.

To read more,… pic.twitter.com/edfwk50BEs

— Merseyside Police (@MerseyPolice) July 29, 2024

The attack unfolded in Southport, a seaside town near Liverpool, when the suspect walked into a “Taylor Swift-themed yoga and dance workshop for children” with a knife and began stabbing people, The New York Times reported.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer responded to the tragedy: “Horrendous and deeply shocking news emerging from Southport. My thoughts are with all those affected. I would like to thank the police and emergency services for their swift response. I am being kept updated as the situation develops.”

Horrendous and deeply shocking news emerging from Southport. My thoughts are with all those affected.

I would like to thank the police and emergency services for their swift response.

I am being kept updated as the situation develops.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 29, 2024

“The news from Southport is truly devastating. My heart goes out to all the families affected by this horrific incident & to the whole community,” said Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary and Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford, and Knottingley. “I have just spoken to the Merseyside Chief Constable & I thank all the emergency services responding in such difficult circumstances.”

Bare Varathan, a nearby business owner who witnessed the aftermath of the attack, said: “They were in the road, running from the nursery.”

“They had been stabbed, here, here, here, everywhere,” indicating neck, back and chest, Varathan told the Associated Press.

Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, who was instrumental in suggesting conservative judges for former President Donald Trump to nominate to the Supreme Court, fired back at President Joe Biden after Biden published an opinion piece on Monday demanding term limits for Supreme Court justices and a “binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court.”

“Justices should be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest,” Biden commanded.

Biden and his Democratic Party have been attacking the two most conservative justices on the court, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, claiming they have violated ethical standards. On July 10, radical leftist Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) filed articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito, ranting, “The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large.”

“No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending this is about undue influence,” Leo fired back against Biden in a statement. “It’s about Democrats destroying a court they don’t agree with.

“If President Biden and the Democrats were truly serious about ethics reform, then they would ban all gifts and hospitality of any kind to any public official in any branch of government, starting with Congress, where the real corruption is.” Leo continued. “They would close all of the loopholes that allow Members to travel on private jets to fancy hotels and restaurants.”

“With respect to judges, they would include the things where influence peddling is most present and dangerous -and that’s when the liberal Justices rub shoulders with influencers at places like law schools, bar associations, progressive think tanks and their conferences, and other groups and events funded by Left-wing billionaires, where they support real vested interests in the work of the Court,” he noted. “”Let me be clear: If Democrats want to adopt an across the board ethics ban for all branches, I am in favor of that: no jets, no meals, no speaking honorariums, no gifts for anyone from anyone for any reason in any branch, starting with Congress. Until they support that, let’s all be honest about what this is: a campaign to destroy a court that they disagree with.”

Leonard Leo’s 🔥🔥🔥 statement on the Supreme Court nonsense: pic.twitter.com/2ykTcahdpX

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 29, 2024

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