A teenager is being held by police on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in east London, police have said.
The 18-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested at the scene after police were called by the London Ambulance Service over reports of a man in his 30s being stabbed at a house in Hackney. Officers said the man was critically injured when they arrived on Sunday morning and that he died in hospital about 90 minutes later.
Scotland Yard said that detectives from its homicide and major crime command, led by DCI Ken Hughes, were investigating. The man’s next of kin had been informed, they said, but police did not name the victim on Sunday evening because they were awaiting formal identification. They said a postmortem examination would be carried out.
Last month, a 25-year-old man was shot dead in daylight a short walk from Sunday’s murder. According to the London Evening Standard, witnesses reported hearing gunshots and hiding. One shopkeeper who works near the scene of the shooting told the paper: “It is shocking. I have never been so scared for my life – I was really, really scared. We thought it was kids throwing fireworks outside. Then one of my colleagues, whose boyfriend deals with guns, went: ‘Oh my God, that’s a gun.’
“We all ran into the back and closed the door. The police came straight away and said all the shops had closed and the area was cordoned off. I just saw people running.”
