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| Harborne stabbing: Teenager knifed to death | Harborne stabbing: Teenager knifed to death |
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| A teenager has been stabbed to death in a suburb of Birmingham. | |
| The 18-year-old suffered fatal injuries in Tennal Road, Harborne, at about 19:15 BST on Wednesday. | |
| A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. He remains in police custody for questioning. | |
| West Midlands Police said a cordon had been put in place and witnesses urged to come forward. Det Insp Michelle Allen said: "A young man has sadly lost his life." | |
| "Advanced life support was given but sadly he was confirmed dead at the scene", a spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service added. | |
| One man, who did not want to be named, said he came to the boy's aid after discovering he had "multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck". | |
| "I was walking to get to my car and came across this boy lying on the floor stabbed. I have a medical background so I knew it was really serious straight away," he said. | |
| He tried to give the victim CPR before the emergency services arrived. | |
| He said he met one of the victim's friends after the attack who described the 18-year-old as "the nicest lad you could meet". | |
| A blue forensic tent has been erected on Tennal Road close to its junction with Queen's Park Road, near the golf club. | |
| One resident, Tony Foster, who has an 18-year-old son said: "It is really concerning. | |
| "This type of thing doesn't happen around here at all, so it is really unusual. | |
| "My son is going out with his friends tonight and I'll be drumming into him a bit more than usual to be careful." | |
| Last year, official figures showed there was a 45% increase in the number of fatal stabbing victims aged 16 to 24 in England and Wales. | |
| In the West Midlands, there were a total of 19 deaths from knife crime. | |
| The number of homicides in Birmingham has been rising since 2014 but is still far lower than it was a decade ago. | |
| In the year ending September 2018 there were 18 homicides in the city, up from a low of 11 in the year to September 2014. |