Police have arrested four boys aged between 13 and 14 on suspicion of murder after a 52-year-old man was stabbed to death following a ‘verbal altercation’ in north London.
Officers were called to a residential address in The Broadway, Edmonton, at around 7.50pm yesterday after reports of a stabbing.
Scotland Yard said they believed the victim had been involved in a verbal altercation with a group in their mid-teens as he attempted to gain entry into a block of flats.
He was allegedly followed by two of the males and stabbed, they added.
The group was apparently trying to get into a ‘supervised party’ at another address within the block when the incident happened.
They did not know the victim was with a woman at the time of the altercation, the police added.
Ambulance crews attended but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 8.40pm.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said they thought they knew the identity of the dead man but he was yet to be formally identified.
Detective Chief Inspector Neale Baldock, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: ‘Our initial inquiries have established that there was a supervised party taking place at another address within the block and the group of males were trying to gain access to this.
‘The victim and this group were not known to each other. What started as a minor verbal altercation has escalated into a shocking act of violence.’
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