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Bonnie Christian

Walthamstow stabbing: First picture of Michael Paul Baptista, 24, knifed to death on London street

This is the first picture of Michael Paul Baptista who was the victim of one of six fatal stabbings in five days across London.

The 24-year-old from Waltham Forest, north-east London, was stabbed to death in nearby Walthamstow on Thursday evening.

Police were called to an altercation on Bromley Road and found Mr Baptista suffering from stab injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A post-mortem examination on Friday gave the cause of death as stab injuries.

Detective Inspector Joanna Yorke, of the Met Police’s specialist crime division, said: “I am grateful to members of the community who have come forward to assist our investigation into this murder, which is not being treated as gang-related.

“Specially trained officers are supporting Mr Baptista’s family.”

Oguzhan Altun, 29, of Dalston Square, Hackney, east London, appeared before Thames magistrates’ court on Monday charged with Mr Baptista’s murder.

Mr Baptista's death was one in a spate of stabbings across the capital in five days.

Lashawn Williams, 29, was beaten with baseball bats and stabbed to death by four hooded attackers as he made his way home early on Saturday, friends said today.

Police today charged Kaziku Tuwisana, 31, of no fixed address with the double murders of two Eastern European men found with fatal stab wounds five miles apart in Barnet and Hertfordshire.

On Thursday, Ebrima Cham, 35, was stabbed to death in a “targeted attack” after three men burst into the house where he was staying in Hounslow.

Last Tuesday, Albert Amofa, 33, died two days after being stabbed in the leg outside his home in Croydon.

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