Publication date: August 4, 2022 • 9 hours ago • 3 min read • 14 comments The people involved in a double stabbing in the White Oaks Mall parking lot Tuesday night may be from an unsanctioned basketball game at White Oaks Elementary School, shown here, London police said. (DALE CARRUTHERS/The London Free Press)

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A popular Toronto YouTuber pulled his basketball event at a south London elementary school after a nearby stabbing that sent two teenagers to hospital with serious injuries.

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However, London police say the people 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 individuals 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 White Oaks Mall parking lot, where two teenage males with stab wounds were taken to the hospital with serious injuries that are not considered life-threatening, 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, police said.

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Earlier in the night, a crowd of more than 100 gathered at White Oaks Elementary School for a basketball game promoted by YouTuber Kevon Watt, known as K Showtime, as part of his seven-city tour in southern Ontario that wrapped up this week. The 20-year-old Toronto native has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, where he posts videos of basketball games featuring trash talk and the occasional fist fight. Several videos posted online from 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 brawling 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 complainants have come forward. “Investigators are aware of an altercation that took place at the basketball game and we are appealing to anyone with information about this (incident) or the knife 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 basketball game promoted by Watt has resulted in violence. On July 17, Waterloo Regional Police responded to a basketball game that had drawn more than 300 people to Tremaine Park in Kitchener, where officers trying to break up several fights were overwhelmed by youths and had to call for backup, according to a CTV report News. .

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Watt released 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 world. . . I would ask the small group of people who are not there to support and only to disrupt, not to turn up as it ruins the event and potentially puts others at risk,” he said. “I learned that two teenagers were attacked in a nearby mall later that night near my event. As far as I know, this is not related to my acquisition and I want to extend my support and wish a speedy recovery to all involved. In no way do you condone violence of this kind wherever and whenever it occurs.” [email protected] Twitter.com/DaleatLFPress

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