UAB Soccer Participant Arrested For Stabbing 2 Teammates Hours Earlier than Recreation, Univ. Says

A College of Alabama at Birmingham soccer participant is beneath arrest after allegedly stabbing two of his teammates on the workforce’s athletic facility Saturday morning, simply hours earlier than kickoff.

Neither the gamers, who’re within the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, nor the alleged aggressor has been recognized.

“We’re grateful to report that two gamers injured in an incident this morning on the Soccer Operations Constructing are in steady situation. Our ideas are with them and their households as they get better. The suspect – one other participant – stays in custody, and an investigation is going down,” a UAB spokesperson mentioned.

The circumstances surrounding the incident are usually not clear.

Shortly after the participant was taken into custody, college officers despatched a message to college students assuring them they had been secure, writing, “there isn’t a risk to campus.”

UAB is at the moment 3-7 and close to the basement within the American Athletic Convention.

Regardless of the violent incident, the Blazers opted to take the sector towards the 7-3 College of South Florida — a recreation that is at the moment underway.