Terrified shoppers ran for their lives as an attacker jumped out a van brandishing a 12 inch kitchen knife and stabbed a man to death in broad daylight.
CCTV footage has captured the moment panicked onlookers fled as the man was killed on the busy Upper Street in Islington, London yesterday evening in front of horrified commuters.
The attack is understood to have happened outside a popular ice cream parlour in the wealthy enclave which was bustling with families and children.
The Metropolitan Police has now launched its 66th murder investigation of the year after a man thought to be in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene.
A police cordon and forensic tent remains at the scene in Islington this morning
CCTV captured a man, who was dressed in a black sweatshirt and light trousers, appearing to race from the scene moments after the fatal stabbing
Despite homes in the area costing upwards of £2million, Islington has a high crime rate. Pictured, police at the scene today
CCTV captured shoppers running along the road and moments later a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt appears to flee the scene.
Islington, known for its juxtaposition of social deprivation and super-gentrification, has long been a favourite area among celebrities and politicians including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
A flat in the affluent borough typically costs more than £610,000 while a terraced house costs £1.3million and the typical semi nearly £2.2million.
However the crime rate in the London borough remains high.
Police officers and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service were seen performing CPR on the victim near Highbury and Islington underground station in the wealthy area, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers are now working to trace at least two male suspects believed to have been involved in the incident.
A police forensic tent remains in place as investigators probe the capital’s 66th murder
Forensic officers have set up a tent at the scene on Upper Street in Islington, north London
Paramedics, police and the London Ambulance service attended the scene
Forensics officers work inside the tent as night falls. Residents of Upper Street have been unable to reach their homes this evening
One eyewitness told the Evening Standard: ‘The chap stabbed this man in the chest with a big kitchen knife. It must have been 12 inches long. The wounds were in his chest. They were obviously really bad.
‘This all happened outside Udderlicious where there were kids hanging out after school. It’s just horrific.’
Forensic officers are today probing the murder while a forensic tent remains in place.
A Met Police spokesman said: ‘Police were called at approximately 6.30pm on Monday, 21 May to reports of a man suffering stab injuries after being attacked in Upper Street, near the junction with Tyndale Lane.
‘Officers and London Ambulance Service attended. The man, thought to be aged in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
‘Next of kin have been informed. We await formal identification. There have been no arrests.
‘Officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are leading the investigation.
‘This investigation is in its very early stages; at this time officers are actively working to trace at least two male suspects believed to have been involved in the incident.’
The cordon extends from Barnsbury Street to Islington Park Road for about 100 metres
A man has been stabbed to death on a bustling north London high street in broad daylight
The victim becomes the 66th person to die in London this year in an unprecedented wave of violence
William Potter, whose home looks down onto the scene of the stabbing, wrote on Twitter: ‘Young guy stabbed and killed right outside my flat on Upper Street. Horrible thing to witness. Poor guy.’
One woman, who did not want to be named was pleading with officers to let her see her dog, which had been locked in all day.
Another resident said he was trying to get food to his elderly grandmother, but could not reach her house as a cordon remained in place last night .
At 9.30pm a police helicopter was circling over Islington.
Islington resident Paul Aaron was walking home to his flat at the time of the attack.
‘The stabbing on Upper Street is literally outside of the flat me and my friend live in,’ he said.
‘To think I was walking home at the same time that it happened, if I was five minutes earlier, God knows it could have been me.’
Police at the scene said that the nearby St Mary’s church would be open for food and shelter overnight.
The area remains cordoned off as police investigate the incident which left one dead
Sixty-six people have died in London this year, as a wave of violence sweeps the city
Arunesh Thangarajah (pictured) has been named as the young man who was stabbed to death in Mitcham on Sunday
Police were at the scene throughout Sunday as they investigate the death of the latest victim
This unnamed individual becomes London’s 66th murder victims of 2018 and the fourth in four days.
In the early hours of Sunday in Mitcham, south-west London, 28-year-old Arunesh Thangarajah was stabbed to death in a senseless and frenzied attack.
Police arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of murder at the scene and he remains in custody.
Concerned local resident Shelly, 48, from neighbouring Montrose Gardens, said: ‘It’s another death, another young boy – we’ve had enough of it quite frankly.
‘He was attacked over at the Co-op and he stumbled over here and across the road, looking for help.’
And on Friday Osman Shidane, 20, died after being attacked in Victoria road in South Ruislip on Tuesday.
Shidane, from West Drayton, Hillingdon, was rushed to hospital and remained in a critical condition for several days.
The 16-year-old boy charged with Shidane’s murder is from Hillingdon but cannot be named for legal reasons.
Osman Shidane, 20 (pictured), died on Friday after being repeatedly stabbed on Tuesday night
A boy, just 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with Shidane’s murder yesterday and is being held in custody
He was arrested on Wednesday at about 12.30pm in The Fairway, a residential street in Ruislip, on suspicion of attempted murder.
This most recent spike in deadly stabbings began with the death of a trainee bricklayer who died outside his home after he was chased down by a rival gang.
The youngster, named locally as Abrahaman Juma, was in his slippers as he ran from his killers at around 11.30pm on Thursday.
Just hours after his murder family and friends were stood grieving outside the family home in Barking, east London.
Knife and gun crimes tend to be disproportionately concentrated in London and other metropolitan areas, the Office for National Statistics said, but it added that the majority of police force areas saw rises in these types of violent crime.
Abrahaman Juma (pictured) was brutally knifed to death on Thursday in Barking
Police were first on the scene when they were called to Crows Road, Barking, in east London to find the man suffering with stab injuries
Friends and family of the victim where spotted congregating near to the spot where the 24-year-old was killed
In the first three months of this year 45 murders were recorded, compared to the first quarter of 2017 when there were 23.
There were two stabbings in just half an hour last month, when on April 15 young father Raul Nicolaie was knifed to death aged 26 in north London. In Brixton in the south of the capital, a woman lost her life to knife crime.
An urgent investigation into the violent crime wave in the capital was launched by the Police and Crime Committee of the London Assembly – and Mayor Sadiq Khan has been urged to ‘take hold of the situation’.
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