BATLEY, ENGLAND — A British Labour Party MP has died after she was shot and stabbed multiple times following a constituency meeting. <br /> <br />Jo Cox was attacked and killed outside a library in her Batley and Spen constituency, about 200 miles north of London, the Guardian reported. <br /> <br />Police are investigating suspect Thomas Mair’s links to far-right organisations after he reportedly shouted ‘Britain first’ during the attack. <br /> <br />Witness accounts of the order of events differ. However, two witnesses told the Guardian that Mair waited for the MP to finish a surgery meeting with members of the public. <br /> <br />Mair shouted ‘Britain first’ before stabbing Cox with a knife, witnesses told the Guardian. <br /> <br />Mair then shot Cox at least twice with what one witness described to the BBC as “an old-fashioned looking gun.” <br /> <br />An unidentified man tried to stop the attack, while some bystanders fled, witnesses told the Guardian. Mair walked away from the scene slowly after the attack, a witness told the Guardian. Mair was arrested in a nearby street shortly afterwards. <br /> <br />Jo Cox had only been an MP for a year. She was a supporter of the campaign for Britain to remain a member of the European Union.
