Harry Potter Death – Rob Knox, the young Harry Potter actor, was stabbed to death in a knife fight and died while protecting his younger brother from a drunk who went crazy with two kitchen knives.
The Harry Potter death occured in a knife attack. 18-year old Rob Knox, plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince” due out in November t his year.
The young Harry Potter actor was stabbed to death when he stepped between his younger brother Jamie Knox, 16, and a drunk man who was armed with two kitchen knives in southeast London near the Metro bar, next to Sidcup train station.
The argument started after the drunken 21-year old accused a friend of Rob Knox, 21-year old Dean Saunders, of stealing his mobile phone on the Metro subway the week before.
Metro employees threw the man out of the bar, but trouble continued on the sidewalk outside the bar.
Both Jimmy Knox, the actor’s brother, and his friend Dean Saunders suffered stab wounds in the incident.
The Harry Potter actor’s death was the result of being stabbed in the chest four times and he bled to death on the sidewalk while his grieving mother held him in her arms.
Oddly, he died just a few feet from the shop owned by the the family of his rugby teammate, Jimmy Mizzen, who had died in an unrelated knife attack two weeks previously.
Friends of Rob Knox are shocked by his death. “Rob was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was being there for his brother and sticking up for him.
“Rob would have been trying to calm the situation down, he wouldn’t want to fight. I don’t know anyone who would have a bad word to say about him.”
Harry Potter Death – Quotes at the Scene
Tarik Ozresberoglu, 17, a trainee steel worker, described how he tried to stem the flow of blood from Mr Knox’s wounds, then rugby-tackled the attacker into submission.
He said that he was chatting to Rob when the attacker appeared. “He pulled out two wooden kitchen knives at least 6 inches long from his waistband, and said ‘Who’s going to make my day then?’
“Girls were screaming. Jamie, Rob’s brother, came over and said ‘a boy has pulled a knife on me’. I held Rob back, but he pushed me out of the way and said ‘he’s threatened my little brother’.
“Rob was angry, but he’s never started any trouble in his life. I think he just wanted to protect his younger brother. Rob went up to the bloke, who stabbed him four times.”
“Rob stumbled back, lifted up his top and we saw the blood seeping from his wounds.”
“I took my jumper off and tried to wrap it round Rob’s wounds. Then as I was trying to do that, I saw the guy was still stabbing people. I told my friend Charlie Grimley, who had also been stabbed, to look after Rob. Then I ran over to the bloke and rugby-tackled him into a bush.”
Struggling to control his emotions, Tarik Ozresberoglu added: “I might have felt a hero if Rob was still here, but what I did is never going to bring Rob back. I might have saved more people from being stabbed but Rob still isn’t here.”
He said Mrs Knox was allowed to hold her son in her arms as he lay dying on the pavement. “She was just crying and crying, sobbing ‘why my Rob?’.”
Other people at the scene were hurt, including Dean Saunders, 21, Nick Jones, 19, Mr Grimley, 17, and 16-year-old Andrew Dormer. Russell Wood, 21, said that he saw Mr Saunders stabbed in the neck three times.
Russell Wood said: “This guy started accusing everybody of nicking his mobile phone. He made me turn out my pockets. The bouncers chucked him out. But the next thing we knew this chap was outside with about five of his mates. Everybody just tried to get the knife off him and in the process, it seemed, too many people got stabbed.”
Charlie Grimley described how Rob Knox jumped to his defense after the attacker “pulled out two knives and said ‘Who wants this?’”
“Rob was just trying to look out for his mate,” said Charlie Grimley. “My stab wound had fractured my cheek bone. Rob saw me get stabbed, tried to get the knife off the bloke and was stabbed himself.”
And that’s the latest news on the Harry Potter Death.
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May 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am
This is so sad. Wow.