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Four teenagers have been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Shakilus Townsend in south London. | |
Shakilus, from Deptford, was beaten with a baseball bat and repeatedly stabbed in Thornton Heath on 3 July. | |
Tyrell Ellis, 18, of Thornton Heath, two male youths aged 17 and 16, and a 15-year-old girl have been charged with murder. A man aged 22 has been bailed. | |
Shakilus is one of 19 youths to have died after being shot or stabbed in London this year. | |
A Scotland Yard spokesman said all four were remanded in custody and would appear at Sutton Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning. | |
The spokesman added that a fifth person who was arrested, a 22-year-old man, has been bailed to return to a police station in south London in August, pending further investigations. | |
After the stabbing, local residents dragged Shakilus into the communal doorway of their building where they tried desperately to save him. | |
Witnesses said he called out, "I don't want to die" and "where's my mum, I want my mum". He died the following day. |
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