A man has been stabbed to death and two teenagers injured following a fight in an east London park.
Police were called to Plashet Park, East Ham, at around 7.30pm BST on Saturday following reports of an altercation.
A man, aged around twenty, was found fatally injured and died at the scene.
Two teenagers were also discovered at the same location, one injured by a knife and the second by a gunshot to the head.
Both men were taken to hospital where their lives are not believed to be in danger.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said officers would remain in the area for an “exceptionally thorough and forensic” investigation and appealed for witnesses to contact them.
No arrests have been made.
Speaking after the fatal stabbing, local resident Barbara Minley said the park was regularly occupied by “hot-headed boys” who argued loudly.
Ms Minley, who lives in a house overlooking the park, said she could no longer send two of her children, aged eight and 12, to play there because of the problems.
Instead, they are going to other parks “because of all these incidents.”
She said the neighborhood had “changed a lot” in the 20-plus years she had lived there and that problems intensified in the 2000s.
“These are stupid arguments and things like that. There was another murder two years ago, some with knives,” she said.
“There are too many hotheaded boys – sometimes it’s a group of them, I don’t know what it is, if it’s a gang thing.”
Ms Minley added: “I have two children (who live here); the other four are all grown up and thank goodness they don’t live in this area – it’s just those two I’m worried about now.
“It’s a beautiful park, but people just don’t want to give others a chance to enjoy it.”
