{"id":162546,"date":"2025-09-23T03:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:59:04","slug":"eighth-person-charged-with-murder-following-stabbing-deaths-of-chol-achiek-and-dau-akueng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162546\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighth person charged with murder following stabbing deaths of Chol Achiek and Dau Akueng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An eighth person has been charged in relation to the alleged murders of two boys in Melbourne&#8217;s outer west earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Dau Akueng, 15, and Chol Achiek, 12, were on their way home from a basketball stadium in Cobblebank when they were allegedly set upon by a group of people wearing masks and wielding bladed weapons on Saturday, September 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called but both boys died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">At the time, authorities described the incident as &#8220;one of the worst&#8221; knife crimes they had seen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A composite image of two boys, one in a white shirt and one in a collared shirt and dark puffer jacket.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f25d93cf7ef55d3397872aa29647a58e\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Chol Achiek, 12 and Dau Akueng, 15, were allegedly stabbed to death in Cobblebank in early September. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Tuesday, Homicide Squad detectives charged a 15-year-old boy with the murder of Dau Akueng.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The latest charge follows another seven murder charges laid in relation to the incident late last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 19-year-old man and three teenage boys, aged 15 and 16, are also facing murder charges over the death of Dau Akueng.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two men aged 18 and 19 as well as a 16-year-old boy have also been charged with the murder of Chol Achiek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said it had increased patrols around the area since the incident and local officers had met with schools, council and community leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 15-year-old charged on Tuesday is due to face court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An eighth person has been charged in relation to the alleged murders of two boys in Melbourne&#8217;s outer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,107418,87066,107419,37957,21145,44],"class_list":["post-162546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chol-achiek","tag-cobblebank","tag-dau-akueng","tag-knife","tag-machete","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}