The teenage boy who died in the Hainault sword attack in north-east London has been identified as 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin.
Police said Anjorin died from stab wounds shortly after being taken to hospital on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
He was the only casualty in the attack that left four other people, including two police officers, injured.
The suspect, Marcus Arduini Monzo, 36, a Spanish-Brazilian national , was cornered and overpowered with a Taser by officers in Thurlow Gardens.
Police were called to reports of a car crashing into a house and people being stabbed in Hainault, north-east London.
James Fernando, a witness, told the BBC that he saw the suspect asked one of his neighbours to take his phone and “tell whoever was on the phone his location”.
Fernando said the neighbour soon noticed the sword and started running.
“As she fled, the woman shouted to another neighbour, a boy on his way to school, was then struck by the attacker as he turned around,” he said.
Anjorin attended Bancroft’s, the same school where Grace O’Malley-Kumar, a stabbing victim in Nottingham, was also a student.
Holy Family Catholic School where the boy’s mother works, issued a statement naming her Mrs Anjorin and called for prayers for the family.
Police said the suspect was ten to hospital and treated for injuries sustained when the vehicle he was in crashed into a house.
The suspect, accused of a violent rampage in a northeastern suburb of the British capital on Tuesday using a Samurai-type sword, was remanded in custody on Thursday by a London magistrates’ court on murder and other charges.
