Details About 15-Year-Old Baptista Adjei Who Was Fatally Stabbed In East London

A 15-year-old boy who was knifed to death in East London on has been verified as Baptista Adjei from Ghana. He was with a friend at the time of his death in front of McDonald’s in Stratford Broadway on Thursday. His friend was also hurt in the altercation which took Baptista’s life.

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Paramedics desperately tried to keep the teenager alive, who witnesses saw collapsed in a pool of blood, but he was pronounced dead at the scene just half an hour later. Police believe Baptista, who was described by family as a ‘nice boy’, was either attacked while on the bus or shortly after he got off.

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His 15-year-old school friend was also rushed to hospital with stab wounds, where he remains with non-life-threatening injuries.

The footballer, who was wearing the uniform of Catholic boys’ school St Bonaventure’s, in Forest Gate, when he was attacked, had recently tried out for League One team Ipswich Town.

Baptista, was described as an affectionate boy who ‘would always make you laugh’, and had phoned his mother Josephine to say he was on his way home just 20 minutes before he was fatally knifed.

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His mother was supposed to pick him up from school, but had ran late.

Source: africacelebrities.com