The 19-year-old victim identified as Andre Aderemi was knifed multiple read more.....
times after being pursued by three others carrying weapons.
Police and paramedics rushed to the scene and he was airlifted to hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Witnesses described the commotion just before Aderemi was stabbed to death.
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"I
saw Andre running for his life and three others were coming behind him.
They were just chasing him and shouting. They chased him behind a row
of shops. I called the police because I knew if they were to get to him
he'd be done. They were armed with machetes. The knives were a foot
long. He was stabbed 20 times."
A Met spokesman, on Wednesday said two men,
both 19, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in
custody. A third teenager was arrested later and detained by detectives
investigating murder case. A post-mortem examination is scheduled to
take place at Croydon mortuary today.
More than 100 friends and relatives of
Aderemi, last night gathered for a memorial church service on the
Croydon estate where he was murdered. His mother Yemi Hughes told the
congregation the family had moved away from the estate to get him out of
the environment.
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"I’ve
lost my baby. He’s my everything, my rock... my other two boys are
broken. I am just so sad that on this one time I wasn't there for him. I
've always been there for him. He just had to call me and I'd have
come. I don't know how I ;m going to be the person that I have been
because Andre has been a huge part of my life. He is my rock."
Andre, an ex-pupil at John Ruskin College
in Croydon, was an amateur rapper said to be friends with two other
young musicians stabbed to death in south London in the past three
months. He is the eighth teenage victim of knife crime. He was becoming
well known in south London’s grime scene, and was friends with Myron
Isaac Yarde, a 17-year-old rapper known as MDot, fatally stabbed in New
Cross in April. He is also said to have performed with 16-year-old
Leoandro Osemeke, known as Showkey, stabbed to death outside a party in
Peckham on August 5. Ms Hughes told his friends:
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"I
want you guys to know I don’t blame any of you. Andre would not want me
to sit here today with hatred in my heart, he loved you all. I want you
to grieve, be together, support each other, be among us. I’m going to
miss him so much. I just don’t know how I’m going to carry on."
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