A murder inquiry has been launched after a teenage boy was stabbed to death in southeast London.
The Metropolitan Police said police and emergency services were dispatched to Eglinton Road in Woolwich shortly after 18:30 BST on Sunday(yesterday)
Police said the youngster, whose age has not been released, was found with a stab wound and died at the scene. Detectives have yet to make any arrests.
One witness stated that she heard the youngster say, “Don’t let me die” as he lay hurt on the ground.
The witness, a 43-year-old woman who has lived in the region for 14 years and did not want to be identified, claimed she attempted to save the kid.
“I was upstairs in my bedroom, I had my nightshirt on, I heard screaming from across the road saying ‘someone’s been stabbed, someone’s been stabbed’,” she went on.
“So, I grabbed a sheet, I had no shoes or socks on or anything, and I just literally run to just near where the tent is, and there was someone laying face down on the floor.”
The witness recalled witnessing a “massive pool of blood” after his leg moved, as well as a head wound.
“I just stemmed the flow of blood until the paramedics and that got here,” she told me.
“He was going to me ‘I’m 15, I’m 15, don’t let me die’ and I said to him ‘you’re not going to die, mate’.”
Another neighbour told BBC London that she picked up the boy’s phone when it called and was able to summon a friend to come to his aid.
“I was back and forth with the boy on the floor and just trying to comfort him – he was saying ‘I am 15’ and ‘to call my mum’,” a witness told me.
“People need to come together and not just say ‘we need to do this and that’.”We must act not only when a crime occurs, but also to prevent it from occurring again.”
A crime scene remains in and around Eglinton Road, near Woolwich Common.
According to the Metropolitan Police, the boy’s next of kin have been notified.
The police have called for witnesses.
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