Robert Knox killed in senseless act of violence outside bar“Harry Potter” fans were forced to deal with somber news Saturday, when young actor Robert Knox, who will appear as Hogwarts student Marcus Belby in this fall’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” was stabbed to death outside a London bar.
“We are all shocked and saddened by this news, and at this time our sympathies are with his family,” read a statement released by Warner Bros., the film’s distributor.
The 18-year-old was defending his younger brother in an early-morning argument with the 21-year-old suspect outside southwest London’s Metro, according to U.K.-based Web site Times Online. Paramedics attempted to revive Knox at the scene, but were unsuccessful. He was later pronounced dead at nearby Queen Elizabeth hospital.
Principal filming on the penultimate “Potter” film (third-to-last, if the two-part “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is counted twice) finished just days earlier on May 17. The movie was the native Londoner’s first big-screen feature, Knox having appeared twice before on English television.
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