Brandon teen charged in fatal stabbing of 15-year-old
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BRANDON — A 15-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a fellow Brandon teen.
City police were called Wednesday night to an apartment building in the 500 block of Louise Avenue, where a 15-year-old boy had reportedly been stabbed.
When officers arrived, the victim was unresponsive. He was taken to hospital and later died.
A teenage male was arrested and taken to Brandon Correctional Centre After a court appearance Thursday, His case was remanded to Sept. 3.
The death marks Brandon’s first homicide of the year.
Police said they believe motivation for the stabbing was personal in nature.
“It is very troubling. However, in light of the amount of edged weapons we’ve been seizing and the amount of violence we’ve been seeing… it was only a matter of time,” Brandon Police Service spokeswoman Sgt. Kirby Sararas said. “The extent that this assault went to is extreme.”
Police do not believe the incident to be gang-related, Sararas said.
Darcy Denbow, who lives across from the house where the incident took place, said a person ran through his yard around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Denbow said Thursday he left his house to see what the commotion was, and saw a teenage boy panicking and trying to get cellphone reception.
“I asked the kid, ‘What’s going on, do you need an ambulance?’ He was running back and forth across the street with his phone, so I grabbed my phone, called 911 (and) said: ‘Need an ambulance here.’”
Denbow said he heard people yelling on the fire escape of 534 Louise Ave. He flagged down a passing police car and told the officers an ambulance was on the way.
“It didn’t look good to me, they were working on the kid, pumping on his chest,” he said.
The teen Denbow encountered told him they were being chased by other people and had run to the building to try to get help, he said.
First responders performed CPR on the victim before putting a tarp over the fire escape and taping off the area, officials said.
Sararas said an autopsy was to be conducted Thursday.
— Brandon Sun