UK police charge 19-year-old with London stabbings

Floral tributes rest against railings Thursday Aug. 4, 2016, near the scene of a fatal stabbing on Wednesday night in Russell Square, London. London police say they have found no signs of radicalization in a knife attack which killed an American woman and injured five other people in London's Russell Square. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP) (The Associated Press)

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Police guard Russell Square following a knife attack in London, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Terrorism is being examined as a potential motive for a knife rampage at Russell Square, central London, that left one woman dead and five others injured. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (The Associated Press)

Police clear barricade tape from Russell Square in London, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Terrorism is being examined as a potential motive for a knife rampage at Russell Square, central London, that left one woman dead and five others injured. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (The Associated Press)

LONDON – British police have charged a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man with carrying out a stabbing rampage in London's Russell Square that killed an American woman.

London's Metropolitan Police says Zakaria Bulham, of London, was charged Friday with the murder of 64-year-old Darlene Horton and the attempted murder of five people who were injured in the attack.

Horton, who was visiting London with her husband, a Florida State University professor, was stabbed to death by a knifeman in a busy tourist area of the city on Wednesday evening.

Bulham, who moved from Norway to Britain as a child, is due in court Saturday.

Police say they have found no link to terrorism for the incident, which came after police warned Londoners to be vigilant after a summer of attacks elsewhere in Europe.