Meg Shanky Shankerson the 3rd 

The famous massacre of 1857, Ohio, was caused by this masked outlaw, later found creating wide disturbances in the British Government, violently stabbing the prime minister and throwing his body into the Thames causing the Black Plague from the rotting corpse. She later fell in love with an exiled Ninja who taught her how to use her blade with efficiency and power, he loved her so much he named the most lethal techniques after her, thus producing the word Shank, she later died at a ripe age of 103. Her memory lived on with all those that carry knives.

Stabbing a victim before Meg Shanky Shankerson the 3rd was around was known as Merking, after her teachings its common knowledge that it is Shanking

Meg Shanky Shankerson the 3rd by Exiled Ninja of the Forests March 3, 2014