A 16-year-old boy has been charged with homicide after two youngsters have been stabbed, one fatally, in Sydney’s west yesterday.
The youngsters have been stabbed close to a faculty on Power Street in Doonside on Friday afternoon.
Emergency providers responded to the stabbings about 3:40pm however earlier than they arrived on the scene, the youngsters, aged 18 and 19, offered themselves to Blacktown Police Station with stab wounds.
The 18-year-old died on the scene, and the 19-year-old was taken to Westmead Hospital in a severe however steady situation.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested close to the Doonside location and brought to Mount Druitt Police Station.
He was charged with homicide and refused bail to look at a kids’s courtroom in the present day.
Police sources stated the stabbings have been believed to be associated to youth crime rivalries referred to as the postcode wars and two rival gangs have been concerned.
James’s home is throughout the highway from the place the incident took place and the place police discovered a bloodied knife.
He was on his manner home work when he obtained a name kind his “distressed” daughter.
“She stated she’s seen a person come by way of the aspect of the home,” he stated.
“When I allowed the police to undergo the aspect of the home … they discovered fairly a giant knife, there was blood everywhere in the knife.”
He stated the stabbing was “too near home” and he was apprehensive for his household, particularly his daughter.
