A U.K. Teen Became Fixated on Extreme Violence. But Was It Terrorism?

On Oct. 4, 2019, a 13-year-old British boy called a child welfare hotline from his home in Banks, a village in northwest England, and asked: “What should I do if I want to kill somebody?” The teenager, Axel Rudakubana, said that he had started taking a knife to school because he was being bullied. After counselors from the hotline called the police, he told officers that he thought that he would use the weapon if he became angry. It was the first of several warnings about Mr. Rudakubana, now 18, and his increasingly violent tendencies.”

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