London stab victim Israel Ogunsola was Facebook friends with murdered Tanesha Melbourne
Written by News on 05/04/2018
An 18-year-old man stabbed to death in Hackney on Wednesday night was Facebook friends with a teenager girl killed in London earlier this week.
Israel Ogunsola is said to have approached police suffering from knife wounds shortly before 8pm on Wednesday following the attack.
Officers rushed to his aid in Link Street, in the east London borough.
Paramedics and staff from the London Air Ambulance attempted to save his life but he was pronounced dead at the scene less than half an hour later.
It has emerged he was Facebook friends with another teenage victim of violent crime in London.
Tanesha Melbourne, 17, was shot in a drive-by shooting on Monday in Tottenham.
Just 30 minutes later, 16-year-old Amaan Shakoor was shot in the face in Walthamstow.
A spate of knife and gun deaths has prompted fears London’s murder rate for 2018 will surge above that for last year.
Two 17-year-olds have arrested on suspicion of murdering Mr Ogunsola, the Metropolitan Police said. They were held on Wednesday night.
The teenager’s father, Dele Ogunsola, who lives on the nearby Jack Dunning Estate, confirmed on Thursday afternoon that his son had died.
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He declined to say anything else.
Mr Ogunsola is one of 51 people identified by Sky News to have been suspected of being deliberately killed in London so far in 2018.
Stabbings in the capital are at their highest rate since 2010/2011.
The latest was in the area of Billet Road, Walthamstow, at around 12.50pm on Thursday when a man in his 20s was taken to hospital with knife wounds.
His injuries that are not thought to be life-threatening.
Labour’s MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy, hit out at Prime Minister Theresa May in a post on Twitter for “coming to our borough looking for votes” and not “hearing our call for help to tackle the violent crime”.
The latest victim to be killed was a man in his 50s who died outside a Betfred bookmakers in Upper Clapton Road, Clapton, following a suspected fight.
A police spokeswoman said the Met Police began a murder investigation into the death on Thursday morning.
A statement said at this stage there have been no arrests.
The number of suspected murders in London since the start of the year has prompted a political row over what should be done about it.
Meanwhile, a pensioner arrested over the death of an intruder stabbed to death in his home in Hither Green, southeast London, has been bailed.
(c) Sky News 2018: London stab victim Israel Ogunsola was Facebook friends with murdered Tanesha Melbourne
