Yahoo News Bexley stabbing: Boy of 17 questioned by police after third knife death in just four days
A teenager was today being questioned by police after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in a weekend of bloodshed which saw the capital’s third knife killing in four days.
The victim was found with a knife wound to his chest after police were called to reports of a car crash on a street of family homes in Bexley, south-east London, at 2.45pm yesterday.
He was taken to hospital where he later died. A 17-year-old was arrested and remains in custody.
Police forensics officers were today continuing to examine the scene on Barnehurst Avenue. A extensive cordon was also still in place as door-to-door inquiries took place.
Frances Webster, 47, said: “I am in total shock … I heard there had been a crash, I didn’t realise someone had died. This is a good family area.”
Another said: “I heard a loud crash and then the police helicopter. I thought it was just a road accident. Then we thought it was a road rage fight.”
Rebecca Dalyankiz Tricker-Appleby said: “There was one police car there and officers were doing CPR on the man on the floor. There were tyre marks on the grass where the car looked like it had skidded and crashed.” The latest killing takes the number of murder probes opened by police in the capital to 115 so far this year, and adds to the total of more than 20 fatal knife attacks on victims under 25.
It was also one of a series of incidents of knife violence over the weekend.
A teenage boy and a man in his twenties were stabbed within a few hundred yards of each other in Tottenham last night, the first at 10.18pm and the second separate attack 20 minutes later.
A manhunt was launched after two men were stabbed during a fight at a butcher’s in West Green Road yesterday morning. The victims, aged 29 and 40, are both in a stable condition in hospital. Witnesses said two teenage boys fled after the attack at 9.35am.
On Saturday afternoon a 34-year-old man was left fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed in Whitechapel. He remains critical but stable.
A man in his early twenties was stabbed several times at Westfield Shopping Centre, Shepherd’s Bush on Saturday. His injuries are not life-threatening.
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