Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his 20s was stabbed to death in a south London retail park.<\/p>\n
Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Hesterman Way, Croydon, at around 1.15am on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Police officers and the London Ambulance Service found three men with stab wounds at the scene at the Valley Retail Park.<\/p>\n
A 22-year-old man died after being taken to hospital, the force said, adding that his next of kin were being supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n
Two other men, both aged 21, were also taken to hospital and have both since been arrested on suspicion of affray.<\/p>\n
One, whose injuries are believed to be life-threatening, is still there, while the other is now in police custody.<\/p>\n
Two women, both aged 25, and a 28-year-old man, were arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday and remain in police custody.<\/p>\n
Two further women, aged 21 and 22, have been arrested on suspicion of affray.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old woman has been bailed while inquiries continue and the 22-year-old woman remains in police custody.<\/p>\n
Detective Chief Inspector Alex Gammampila, who is leading the Met investigation, urged anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n
He said: “Our thoughts remain with the victim’s family at this hugely difficult time. We cannot begin to imagine what they are going through.<\/p>\n
“We understand that this incident will be distressing to the local community. My officers continue to work at pace to unpick the events that unfolded and to apprehend those responsible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his 20s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-428077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}