By Graham Smith
Last updated at 12:52 PM on 22nd December 2009
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a teenage art student was knifed to death following an apparent row on Facebook.
Salum Kombo, 18, was found lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds in east London near his family home on Sunday evening.
Friends claim he may have been targeted after posting a message on the social networking webpage of another boy.
Victim: Salum Kongo was stabbed to death after an apparent row on Facebook. Friends yesterday posted a tribute to the 18-year-old on the social networking site
Mr Kombo, who was studying art at Tower Hamlets College, was stabbed in a basketball court just off Chiltern Road in Bow and staggered several hundred metres to Devons Road, police said.
He was discovered with wounds to the neck and chest at about 6.40pm on Sunday.
Passer-by Gary Byrne, 46, held the teenager in his arms as 'the life drained out of him'.
'We saw the kid lying on the ground with a crowd of young boys standing around him,' he told The Sun.
Tributes: Mr Kombo's devastated friends leave flowers at the scene in Bow
'I pulled up and got out of the car. When I went over there was another guy trying to stem the flow of blood.
'I was speaking to the ambulance while holding his head and trying to talk to him, trying to keep him awake. His eyes were flickering and I could see the life draining from the poor kid.
'There was so much blood. I have never seen anything like it in my life.
'When the ambulance pulled up he was still alive and they worked on him for about 20 minutes but he died on the pavement.'
Crime scene: Mr Kombo staggered 400 yards before collapsing in a pool of blood after he was attacked near his family home in east London
Mr Kombo is believed to have arrived in the UK from Tanzania around seven years ago.
The news of his death was broken to his parents there yesterday. He lived with an aunt in London.
Mr Kombo was the 13th teenager to be killed in the capital this year.
A 15-year-old boy from Bow was charged with his murder and will appear at nearby Thames Magistrates Court.
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