Vic: Police want to speak to third man over stabbing

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-2007
Vic: Police want to speak to third man over stabbing

Homicide detectives are appealing for a 21-year-old man to come forward over the fatal
stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in Melbourne's east.

YAN YU .. also known as Ricky .. died on Thursday night after being stabbed outside
a 7-Eleven store at Box Hill .. as paramedics struggled to save him.

Police yesterday arrested a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy .. both from Box
Hill South .. over the stabbing murder .. but released them without charge later.

Police want to talk to 21-year-old JIE ZHU .. from Doncaster .. and are asking him
to contact his nearest police station immediately.

Police say a knife was found in shrubbery close to where Mr YU was stabbed and they
are investigating whether it was the murder weapon.

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KEYWORD: STABBING (MELBOURNE)

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