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

A College of Alabama at Birmingham soccer participant is underneath arrest after allegedly stabbing two of his teammates on the crew’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 secure situation. Our ideas are with them and their households as they get well. The suspect – one other participant – stays in custody, and an investigation is happening,” a UAB spokesperson mentioned.

The circumstances surrounding the incident aren’t clear.

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

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

Regardless of the violent incident, the Blazers opted to take the sphere in opposition to the 7-3 College of South Florida — a recreation that is presently underway.