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Man stabbed to death outside club | Man stabbed to death outside club |
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A man has been stabbed to death outside a nightclub in south London. | A man has been stabbed to death outside a nightclub in south London. |
The victim, 22, named locally as Lucan Gordon, was found close to the Domino Club on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton at about 2100 BST on Friday, police said. | |
The man, who has not been formally identified by police, was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. | |
Police believe the man was with friends outside the club when he was attacked by another man. No arrests have been made over the killing. | |
Det Ch Insp Garwood said: "We are in the early stages of this investigation and are pursuing all avenues of information." | |
He wasn't a person who would get into trouble. It is a massive shock Sasha Sinclair, friend | |
Mr Gordon is believed to have come to the UK with his family from Jamaica eight years ago. | |
Mr Gordon's cousin Dwayne Parch, 20, said: "He was stabbed from behind while standing by the wall. He was stabbed in the left side of the neck." | |
Friend Sasha Sinclair, 21, said: "He wasn't a person who would get into trouble. | |
"It is a massive shock, he was like family to me." | |
James Gouldburne, 43, a parking attendant, said: "I have known his father from when we were both in the army in Jamaica together 25 years ago. Lucan's family moved here eight years ago. | |
"He was studying for his theory driving test because he wanted to be a driver." | |
'Soaked in blood' | |
Lizzy Okyere, 25, who lives in a flat next to the club, said: "I looked through a gap in my fence and saw a young man lying down. | |
"He was wearing white trainers and was soaked in blood. | |
"They were trying to resuscitate him but he wasn't moving. | |
"He was lying there on his own because the police had moved everyone inside," she said. | |
In an unrelated incident, gunshots were heard in the area of Clerkenwell Road and St John's Square in Farringdon, central London on Friday evening. | In an unrelated incident, gunshots were heard in the area of Clerkenwell Road and St John's Square in Farringdon, central London on Friday evening. |
A man in his 20s with gunshot wounds to the leg went to a south London police station later that evening. | A man in his 20s with gunshot wounds to the leg went to a south London police station later that evening. |
No-one has been arrested over the incident. | No-one has been arrested over the incident. |