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Second murder arrest after boy, 16, stabbed

Alex PopeNorthamptonshire
News imageFamily handout Khadeem Parris, a teenager, poses in front of the camera. He wears a Chicago Bulls-branded black T-shirt and a black baseball cap. The T-shirt is printed with the word "BULLS" in red lettering and the red face of a bull. The cap also has the red face of a bull printed on it. Khadeem holds the edges of the baseball cap with his fingertips. He wears a chain round his neck, and a white wall is behind him.Family handout
Sixteen-year-old Khadeem Parris died as a result of a stab wound, a post-mortem examination found

A second person has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 16-year-old boy died of a stab wound.

Khadeem Parris, from Motherwell, Scotland, died at the scene in Adnitt Road, in the Abington area of Northampton, on the evening of 7 July.

Police said a 20-year-old man was arrested in Motherwell in North Lanarkshire on Thursday on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.

It comes after Fuad Mohamud Mohamud, of Thorn Hill Walk, Briar Hill, Northampton, appeared at Northampton Crown Court charged with murder on 15 July and was remanded into custody.

News imageSteve Hubbard/BBC A late Victorian-style terraced street of houses with cars and buildings on either side. There are a lot of white vans on the road, a cordoned-off area, with a police officer standing in the road. Road signs are to the left. Steve Hubbard/BBC
Emergency services were called to Adnitt Road in Northampton in July

Two men, aged 19 and 56, and a 51-year-old woman, have been released on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Khadeem was described by his family as an "amazing" sibling to his older brother and younger sister and was a "funny, smiling boy".

In a statement issued to police, they said: "He was always singing, he loved a joke, and he was such a kind son – he had a kindness inside of him."

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