Bishop of Woolwich The Venerable Alastair Cutting leads prayers during a vigil at St Mary Magdalene church in Woolwich, south London, for 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa who was stabbed to death on a London Bus on Tuesday.
A 14-year-old boy stabbed to death in Woolwich yesterday made a fateful final Instagram post minutes before he was 'murdered' on bus - in an area where vicious gang warfare has gripped the streets.
The teenager was also an established drill rapper, going by the street name 'Grippa', with his latest track 'Bangers & Mash' having been released on Christmas Day. The 15-year-old was fatally stabbed in the leg with a 'zombie knife' on September 22, crying out 'I'm 15, don't let me die' as he bled to death in Eglinton Road, Woolwich - less than a mile-and-a-half away from Tuesday's stabbing.
Three teenagers, Jacob Losiewicz, 18, Marko Balaz, 18, and a 17-year-old youth have since been charged with Daejaun's murder. In Sydenham, a few miles south of Woolwich, expectant father Curtis Green, 30, was gunned down in Wells Park Road on November 11, with locals saying the shooting was the latest in a series of violent incidents in the leafy London suburb.
Mechanic Dave Murray, 62, from Plumstead said: 'It's tragic. Whatever those boys were fighting about it's never worth it.' A police officer walks past a bus stop on Woolwich Church Road in Woolwich after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death on a bus Chief superintendent Louise Sargent said: 'I know this will be a worrying time for everyone here in Woolwich, and even more so given the very young age of the victim.
The teenager, who attended Shooters Hill College in Woolwich, is in a critical in hospital after the stabbing in Prince Imperial Road at around 4.20pm on Monday.A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: 'We were called at 2.29pm today to reports of a stabbing at the junction of Woolwich Church Street and Church Hill, SE18.
Margaret Mizen, the mother of Jimmy Mizen who was killed aged 16 in London in 2008 when a glass dish was smashed into his face, said her heart went out to the family of the 14 year old. Anthony Okereke, the leader of Royal Borough Greenwich, said the council was working closely with Scotland Yard in response to 'this horrific incident'.
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