A 52-year-old man has been arrested in the attack on Jo Cox, a British lawmaker https://t.co/Xaypxr9IKP pic.twitter.com/InYA6pbxc4
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 16, 2016
BBC:
An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency, police have said. Jo Cox, 41, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground by her attacker. A 77-year-old man also suffered slight injuries. A 52-year-old man was arrested near Market Street, Birstall, West Yorkshire Police said. The MP held a weekly advice surgery nearby. The MP's death was confirmed at police headquarters in Wakefield.
A member of Parliament has been assassinated just a week before a UK referendum on leaving the European Union. https://t.co/CpZ3sHknfM
— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) June 16, 2016
Cox was a Labour MP, a feminist, an anti-slavery campaigner, an LGBT ally, and a supporter of welcoming Syrian refugees to Britain. She was married and was the mother of two young children.
A man who runs a nearby cafe said he believed the gunman shot MP Jo Cox three times - including once in "the head area" - before stabbing her multiple times with a "foot-long knife". Clarke Rothwell said that, as the man stabbed Mrs Cox, he shouted: "Britain First, Britain First, Britain First." .... The man arrested after Labour MP Jo Cox was repeatedly shot and stabbed has been named locally as Tommy Mair, a local man from Birstall where the attack took place. Neighbours described him as a "loner".
Britain First is a rightwing/crypto-fascist, anti-immigrant, anti-gay political party that describes itself as "a patriotic political party and street defence organisation" where nativists, xenophobes, and hooligans can "join forces with patriots like you and make a real difference!"
It's going to happen here. Maybe not a lawmaker. More likely a protestor or a reporter. But it will happen. And it will be his fault.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) June 16, 2016
Or a judge.