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A popular Toronto YouTuber has distanced his basketball event at a south London elementary school from a nearby stabbing that sent two teenagers to hospital with serious injuries.
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August 4, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 3 minutes read • 13 comments The people involved in a double stabbing in the White Oaks Mall parking lot Tuesday night may have come from an unsanctioned basketball game in the ‘White Oaks Primary School, shown here, London police said. (DALE CARRUTHERS/The London Free Press)
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A popular Toronto YouTuber has distanced his basketball event at a south London elementary school from a nearby stabbing that sent two teenagers to hospital with serious injuries.
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But London police say the individuals involved in the double stabbing may be connected to the basketball game, where a fight broke out involving more than a dozen men.
“We believe the people involved in the stabbing investigation were possibly at that basketball game,” said police spokesman Const. Sandasha Bough said Thursday.
Emergency crews responded around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to a reported stabbing in the parking lot of White Oaks Mall, where two teenagers with stab wounds were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. were considered fatal, police said.
Officers arrested one suspect nearby and later identified a second suspect, both juveniles, and seized two knives, police said. One of the injured teenagers remains in hospital in serious condition, while the other has been released, according to police.
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Earlier in the evening, a crowd of more than 100 people gathered at White Oaks Elementary School for a basketball game promoted by YouTuber Kevon Watt, known as K Showtime, as part of his tour across seven cities in southern Ontario that ended this week.
The 20-year-old from Toronto has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, where he posts videos of basketball games that include banter and the occasional fistfight.
Several videos posted online of the London game show a brawl breaking out on the basketball court behind the school on Bradley Avenue.
A video posted on TikTok shows a group of men arguing on the basketball court before they start punching and kicking people who fall to the ground. Dozens of spectators surround the fighters, cheering them on and filming with their mobile phones.
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Bough said police are aware of the videos circulating online, but no whistleblowers have come forward.
“Investigators are aware of an altercation that took place during the basketball game and are appealing for anyone with information related to this (incident) or the stabbing to contact us to assist in this investigation.” , he said.
Thames Valley District School Board officials were unaware of the basketball game on school property until police contacted them Thursday, a board spokesman said.
This is the second time in the past month that a Watt-promoted basketball game has sparked violence.
On July 17, Waterloo Regional Police responded to a basketball game that had drawn more than 300 people at Tremaine Park in Kitchener, where officers trying to break up several fights were mobbed by youths and had to call for backup, according to a CTV News report. .
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Watt issued a statement through his management company condemning any acts of violence and distancing his London event from the stabbings.
“Of the hundreds of fans that came to my event in London, a small group of people came with the intention of causing harm and disrupting the event for the rest of the people. . . . I would ask that small group of people that they are not there to support and just disrupt, that they don’t show up as it ruins the event and potentially puts others at risk,” he said.
“I have learned that two teenagers were attacked in a nearby mall later that night near my event. To my knowledge, this is unrelated to my inauguration and I want to extend my support and wish everyone a speedy recovery those involved. It in no way encourages violence of this kind wherever and whenever it occurs.”
dcarruthers@postmedia.com
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