A 23-year-old man has died after being stabbed in a south London youth club.
Police were called to Minet Road, Brixton, at about 18:45 GMT on Thursday where the victim was given first aid by officers at the scene. He was pronounced dead at 19:27 GMT. His next of kin have been informed and no arrests have been made, police said.
DCI Mick Norman, said: «This was an appalling attack on a young man in a youth centre — a place where he was entitled to feel safe.» «All the early indications are that this attack was premeditated and targeted», he added.
Pastor and community campaigner Lorraine Jones said she had heard a fight had broken out at the youth club and the man was stabbed in the groin: «The police were called, they tried to do CPR with a defibrillator, the ambulance came and pronounced him dead.»
Ms Jones, whose 20-year-old son Dwayne Simpson was stabbed to death in Brixton in 2014, lives nearby.