The 19-year-old died<\/a> following an alleged assault in Belmont Road, Whitstable, in the early hours of Good Friday.<\/p>\nDetective Chief Inspector Emma Lawry said: \u201cOver the last week, officers have carried out a number of inquiries, including appealing for two men we would like to speak to.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur officers have been seen across Sittingbourne, Herne Bay and Ramsgate as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have received really good support from the public and we would like to thank them.<\/p>\n
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Multiple police cars in the Aldi car park in East Street, Sittingbourne<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo men are now in custody and we will keep the public updated as this case moves on.\u201d<\/p>\n
An air ambulance landed on nearby Westmeads Recreation Ground at about 3am, but the dad-of-one sadly died at the scene.<\/p>\n
It is believed he was known to the alleged offenders.<\/p>\n
Four arrests were made earlier this month in connection to the stabbing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Officers attended an address in Sittingbourne on April 8, where two women aged 22 and 24, and a 26-year-old man were all arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.<\/p>\n
A 21-year-old man from Sittingbourne was also arrested on suspicion of the same offence on April 5.<\/p>\n
They have all been bailed pending further enquiries.<\/p>\n
Detectives launched an appeal earlier this month to help trace two men they wished to speak with in connection with the murder investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder following a major police response after the death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,59,57,58,191,50,190,56,54,55,2557],"class_list":{"0":"post-529498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-kent","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sittingbourne","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-whitstable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529498","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=529498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}