Truemors
The wave of youth knife crime continues in England with an 18 year-old youth stabbed to death in Walthamstow, East London in the early hours of today. Officials have cancelled Olympic handover ceremonies in Waltham Town Square.
Waltham Forest is one of the planned venues of the London 2012 Games.
Two men aged 20 and 17 have been arrested in connection with the crime.
UPDATE: The youth has been named:
Charles Junior Hendricks, known to his friends as CJ, was found by police on a routine patrol near a bus garage in Walthamstow.
Officers had noticed two or three men running away from a street at around 1.40am and found the teenager lying on the pavement suffering from a single stab wound.
It is understood the victim knew his attackers and the stabbing may have happened following a "petty dispute".
Charles became the 24th teenager to be murdered in London this year, 18 of whom have been fatally stabbed. A total of 26 teenagers were killed in London last year. [/q]
An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death near a bus garage in Walthamstow, east London.A routine police patrol found the teenager lying wounded near Selborne Road at 0140 BST. He was pronounced dead in hospital.
A man in his 20s and a 17-year-old youth have been arrested in connection with the incident and are in custody.
The council leader is now calling for a meeting with other local authority chiefs to tackle knife crime.
The 18-year-old victim is the 24th teenager to be killed in a stabbing or a shooting in London this year.
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