A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of murdering a teenager who died in the street from stab wounds after a party advertised on SnapChat descended into a mass brawl.
Joao Ricardo Gomes, 18, was one of three teenagers found stabbed after police responded to reports of the street fight in Hertford Road, Enfield, north London, at around 10.30pm on Saturday 13 May. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to reports, scores of young people had gathered at a party advertised on the social media app SnapChat, where violence erupted. A 19-year-old and a 17-year-old also found stabbed nearby after the same incident were taken to hospital and have since been discharged.
The suspected killer was arrested on Tuesday and has been released on bail while detectives from the Metropolitan police’s homicide and major crime division continue to investigate the killing, police said.
Gomes is the 17th young person to be killed by a knife this year, and the seventh in London, according to the Guardian’s count. A postmortem examination gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.
