Bristol stabbing: Teen dies after Rawnsley Park attack

By Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley

BBC Records, West of England

A assassinate investigation has been launched after a 16-365 days-passe boy was once stabbed to loss of life.

The teenager was once attacked sooner than 18:00 GMT on Wednesday by two folks carrying masks in Rawnsley Park in Bristol.

The sufferer ran to Stapleton Avenue, the put a motorist assisted him, sooner than he collapsed in West Avenue, Venerable Market, and died at the scene.

Police officers had enhanced pause and search powers well-liked for 24 hours from 17:00 on Thursday.

This enables them to scurry making an are trying folks for weapons with out desiring cheap suspicion, and are waiting for them to put off any face coverings.

While formal identification of the sufferer has not but taken website, Avon and Somerset Police (ASP) said his family had been advised.

Shop workers Essie Zadeh and Anne Pashaliska said they saw a van pull as much as succor the teenager, who was once mendacity on the ground.

Ms Pashaliska said: “The boy was once shifting hectically, he was once lined in blood so I referred to as 999.

“They requested me to take a share of field material and test out and pause the bleeding.”

“It is ravishing, he was once a in actuality young boy. In actuality unhappy,” she said.

In an announcement, ASP said the attack was once a “stark reminder” of the “horrific affect” knife crime had on communities.

Supt Value Runacres said: “Tragically, we’ve misplaced one other young existence from our city in fully horrific cases.

“Our thoughts are with the sufferer’s family at what’s going to be an unimaginably refined time and officers will proceed to toughen them.”

He said the force was once “keeping an initiate thoughts” but there was once “no distinct evidence to recommend that is linked to completely different most modern incidents in town”.

Police and Crime Commissioner Value Shelford said he would be arranging a assembly between police and community leaders “to share knowledge about what is occurring and next steps”.

“I in actuality enjoy requested the Chief Constable to explore the fat range of observe alternate choices that the police enjoy at their disposal for prevention and deterrent, and to explore alternate choices of bringing into the force psychologists and academics to audit the staunch observe for the prevention of knife crime,” he added.

Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees said the loss of life was once “tragic data”.

“I will be able to not originate to imagine what the victims’ family are experiencing, my thoughts are with them,” he wrote on social media.

“This desires to pause. We are in a position to manufacture each effort to toughen the family, the police and local community at present,” he added.

ASP said there would be elevated patrols in the gap as officers made enquiries.

A post-mortem examination will take website finally, police said.

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