{"id":563810,"date":"2025-11-11T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563810\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:13:12","slug":"katie-fox-killing-everything-we-know-about-stabbing-on-birmingham-street-that-killed-34-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563810\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Fox killing: Everything we know about stabbing on Birmingham street that killed 34-year-old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> city was brought to a stop on Friday, November 7, following the death of 34-year-old Katie Fox, who was stabbed in the neck shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Katie was fatally stabbed on Smallbrook Queensway at around 9pm, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> quickly arresting 21-year-old Njeison Rafael, from Rosedale Avenue, Smethwick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/798da30c-5af4-4999-96b7-edc9ae2acf0e.jpg\"   alt=\"The city was bought to a standstill while police investigated the unexpected death\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The city was bought to a standstill while police investigated the unexpected death<\/p>\n<p>Rafael appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.expressandstar.com\/uk-news\/2025\/11\/10\/man-accused-of-murdering-woman-by-stabbing-her-in-neck-in-birmingham-appears-in-court-he-is-21-year-old-from-smethwick\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Magistrates Court<\/a> on Monday, accused of the killing, where the offences were deemed &#8216;too serious&#8217; to be dealt with by the magistrates&#8217; court.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear before Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday (November 12).<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Rafael&#8217;s next court appearance, we have listed everything we know about the killing that brought the city to a standstill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham city was brought to a stop on Friday, November 7, following the death of 34-year-old Katie Fox,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115531718212355606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}