An 18-year-old man has died, and another teenage boy is in hospital following two separate stabbings in metropolitan Melbourne in less than 10 hours.
Emergency services were called to St Kilda beach about 7.30pm on Sunday following reports of people brawling near the foreshore.
Police are investigating the stabbing, which unfolded in front of a number of witnesses on Sunday evening. Credit:Nine News
The 18-year-old man from Tarneit was found with stab wounds at the popular beach near Pier Road and taken by ambulance to hospital, where he later died.
A St Kilda resident told the ABC he saw groups of people fighting and running away from the area, which was heaving with people celebrating the first weekend of summer, before police arrived.
“The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are yet to be determined at this stage,” police said in a statement.
Homicide detectives are investigating the stabbing, which could have been captured by mobile close-circuit cameras installed in the area as part of Operation Summersafe.
Citronelle Circuit remained closed off early on Monday morning as police collected evidence from the scene.Credit:Nine News
The initiative, which will see a bolstered police presence at key coastal spots throughout summer to tackle excess drinking, drug use and anti-social behaviour, started on Friday.
Another teenage boy was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening stab wounds after confronting a group of burglars who broke into his home in Brookfield, near Melton in Melbourne’s outer west.
Police said the burglars entered the Cintronelle Circuit property just before 5am on Monday where they were confronted by residents, including the boy.
“They were involved in an altercation with residents at the property that resulted in a teenage male being stabbed,” police said in a statement.
The cul-de-sac remained closed early on Monday morning, as investigators combed the scene looking for clues to identify the burglars, who fled the scene while one of the residents at the home rushed to a neighbour’s house to ask for help.
The violent incidents came a day after mother of three Nelomie Perera was allegedly stabbed to death inside her Wodalla Circuit home in Sandhurst.
In CCTV footage obtained by Nine News Perera’s teenage daughter was seen knocking on her neighbour’s door and pleading for help just before midnight on Saturday.
Nelomie Perera died in her Sandhurst home on Saturday night. Her former partner has been charged with her murder.
“Please, please, please,” she pleaded, as she desperately knocked on the door. “I’m pretty sure she’s dead.”
The girl was then seen doing a hacking motion with her arm as she told her neighbour “he’s cutting her, like, with a knife, he’s, like, full on bashing her with a knife”.
“She was just saying, ‘My mum’s dead, my mum’s dead’,” neighbour Paul Vavitis told Nine News.
The 44-year-old was allegedly stabbed by her former husband, Dinush Kurera.
A teenage boy believed to be Perera’s son was also found with head injuries and rushed to Frankston Hospital.
Nine News reported Perera had separated from Kurera and recently changed the locks of her home.
Kurera has been charged with murder. He appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Sunday.
He will front court again in April next year.
Anyone with further information about the stabbings is urged to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au
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