A 15-year-old boy who was allegedly stabbed to death by someone wielding a zombie knife has been pictured for the first time.
The teenager – named by friends as Daejaun Campbell – was set upon by a group of men in Woolwich, South East London, at 6.30pm on Sunday, according to witnesses, before a neighbour tried to save his life.
WITNESSES STATEMENT
Friends said yesterday that Daejaun was a ‘good guy’ who ‘never had an issue with anyone’. He ‘was very, very smart and well behaved’ pupil and often played basketball, football and rugby at school.
Police said the boy’s murder was a ‘stark and sobering reminder of the danger of zombie-style knives’ as a ban on possessing the weapons comes into force today.
The 43-year-old mother told how the boy begged for help in his last moments, telling her ‘I am 15, please don’t let me die’, as she battled to stem the bleeding.
She said: ‘The neighbours were all screaming. I jumped down the stairs in my nightshirt, with no shoes or socks on, I grabbed a sheet that I had just hung up and ran out to him. I could see him lying on the floor.
‘He was saying, “I am 15, please don’t let me die”. He had a slash across his forehead and an injury on his head, but there was so much blood.
‘Then I saw his leg. They must have cut an artery, so I put pressure on it and kept him talking until the ambulance arrived.’
The woman, who did not want to be named, stepped back when paramedics arrived but they were unable to save him.
