A teenager’s heartbreaking final words were “I’m 15, don’t let me die” after he was fatally stabbed in south east London, according to a shocked onlooker. The Met Police responded to a call about a disturbance on Eglinton Road, Woolwich, around 6.30pm on Sunday.
They found the boy wounded and lying in a “pool of blood”, the Mirror reports, and he tragically lost his life soon after. In the wake of the incident, a local woman recounted her attempts to rescue him.
Having lived there for over a decade, the 43-year-old rushed out to aid the victim bleeding on the street outside her home. From near the police cordon, she described the chaotic scene: “I was upstairs in my bedroom, I had my nightshirt on, I heard screaming from across the road saying ‘someone’s been stabbed, someone’s been stabbed’.
“So, I grabbed a sheet, I had no shoes or socks on or anything, and I just literally run to where just near where the tent is, and there was someone laying face down on the floor. I turned him over, he had a gash in his head and I thought ‘that’s not bleeding enough’.
“His leg moved and there was a massive pool of blood, so I just stemmed the flow of blood until the paramedics and that got here. I asked if I could go and shower because I was covered in his blood, and they said ‘yes’ so I went in and showered.
“I come back out and they (the police) called me over because I was the last one with him – he was going to me ‘I’m 15, I’m 15, don’t let me die’ and I said to him ‘you’re not going to die, mate’.”
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson confirmed: “Police were called approximately 18:35hrs on Sunday, 22 September to reports of a disturbance on Eglinton Road, SE18. Officers attended and found a teenage boy with a stab injury.
“Despite the efforts of officers and paramedics at the scene, he sadly died a short time later. His next of kin have been informed.
“A crime scene remains in place. There have been no arrests and enquiries continue. Anyone with information is asked to call police via 101 quoting reference CAD 5989/22Sep.”
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