Major update after 17-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed outside Sydney’s Rouse Hill High School
A second teenage boy has been charged with murder after a fellow teen was allegedly stabbed to death near a high school.
The victim, a boy aged 17, died from stab wounds to his thigh after a confrontation at a park behind Rouse Hill High School in Sydney’s northwest about 4.20pm on Monday.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested after he presented to Riverstone Police Station with a parent shortly before 7pm.
NSW Police then confirmed they had charged a second 15-year-old boy with murder after searching a home on Collins Circuit, in Rouse Hill, about 9.45pm on Tuesday.
He was refused bail to appear before a children’s court the following day.
The first teenager police charged with murder faced a children’s court on Tuesday, during which Magistrate James Viney read a police application for DNA samples in the courtroom, which contained sworn declarations from an officer.
‘It is asserted in the affidavit the victim was a 17-year-old with no criminal charges,’ he said.
‘It is asserted the young person set upon the deceased unprovoked and stabbed him in the groin area.’
A teenage boy was allegedly stabbed to death behind Rouse Hill High School in Sydney’s northwest about 4.20pm on Monday
Two 15-year-old boys have been charged with murder by police following the alleged incident (pictured, paramedics at the scene)
The court also heard the 15-year-old was on police body-worn camera footage telling an officer: ‘I stabbed another boy in the leg.’
When asked who he was admitting to stabbing, he allegedly gave police the name of the deceased.
Police allege witnesses described seeing the victim’s attacker dressed in a balaclava, hoodie, shorts and running shoes, a description allegedly matching that of the 15-year-old.
They argued scrapings taken from under his fingernails would likely contain DNA evidence that matched the deceased.
A court order is needed to take DNA evidence from an accused juvenile because they are not considered capable of giving informed consent.
The 15-year-old sat quietly in the courtroom, wearing a black hoodie and sporting a mullet haircut with shaved sides.
The boy did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody for eight weeks, when the case returns to court.
The Daily Mail understands the alleged victim’s parents migrated to Australia from Europe more than 15 years ago before settling in the city’s north-west, where the 17-year-old was active in the local sporting community.
The 17-year-old’s heartbroken girlfriend has led tributes online
His heartbroken girlfriend said he made the ‘little things fun’ and ‘brought a smile’ to her face ‘every single day without fail’.
‘[Name redacted] you will be remembered by all,’ she wrote online.
‘I love you so much and you will be forever in my heart.
‘You don’t deserve this and never did, you are a strong boy and you deserve the world.
‘I don’t know what I’m going to do without you baby, but I know you would want me to live and stay strong, so I’ll live for you ML [my love].’
More to come.
