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Quote: A city shop owner has also revealed that the knife believed to have been used to kill the 14-year-old schoolboy during a brawl between Sudanese youths was purchased just seven minutes before the incident. Police expect to lay charges within days over the stabbing death of Daniel Thongjang Awak, in a fight involving a group of 12 Sudanese Australians. Another teenager who was stabbed in the leg remains in a serious but stable condition at Royal Adelaide Hospital. The wild fight began in Adelaide's City Cross arcade at 3.40pm on Wednesday and spilled over Grenfell Street and in to the Fleet Street Newsagency. At 3.33pm an unknown teenager of African appearance bought a 15cm knife from an arcade store, the store's owner was reported by the Daily Telegraph as saying. Police refused to confirm this. South Australian Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said today police investigators have taken time to sort through reports and other material. "But the advice I have received this morning is that in the next couple of days there may well be charges laid," he said. Police said they had not yet identified a clear motive for the attack, but understood there were a number of altercations which led to the incident. A 16-year-old boy was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault on police and resisting arrest, but the allegations against him are not related to the initial brawl. Mr Hyde said while relations between police and the Sudanese community were good, police were concerned about the possibility of retaliation. Measures had been introduced to prevent further attacks, including extra patrols in key areas of the city where Sudanese youths were known to gather, he said. Friends and family yesterday expressed their shock on hearing of Daniel's death. "He is one of the nicest people I know and one of the people you would least suspect this would happen to," a schoolmate wrote on the AdelaideNow message board. Daniel was born in a cattle-farming village south of Sudan. As a child he migrated to a refugee camp in Kenya to flee the Sudanese Civil War. He lived with his aunt in Uganda for a few years and in 2004 moved to Australia, at the age of 10, the Telegraph reports. In 2006 Daniel's mother, three brothers and three sisters joined him in Australia. Family friends say he then became a happier and more settled child.

Disturbing CCTV footage has been released showing a teenager being chased by an African gang through central Adelaide shortly before he was stabbed to death.



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Quote: A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder over the fatal stabbing of schoolboy Daniel Awak, as Adelaide police braced for possible retaliation within the city's Sudanese Australian community. Police would not confirm whether the accused also was allegedly involved in the stabbing of a second Sudanese Australian boy during the brawl in central Adelaide's Grenfell Street on Wednesday. The injured boy remains in a critical condition. Police said earlier they had not yet identified a clear motive for the deadly attack but understood a number of altercations had led to the brawl, which involved about 12 Sudanese Australian youths, all from the same tribal group, fighting with knives in the city's centre. Senior police met on Friday with leaders of Adelaide's 1,500-strong Sudanese community. South Australian Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said relations between police and Adelaide's Sudanese community were good, but officers were concerned about the possibility of retaliation in the community. As a safety measure, police would undertake extra patrols in key areas of the city where Sudanese youths were known to gather or frequent, he said. With knife attacks on the rise, the commissioner also said he wanted to see ####l detectors more widely used to help police crack down on knife carriers. "We need to look at the circumstances in which police can search for these dangerous weapons," he said, acknowledging police could not prevent every knife attack. "But we need to make sure that a culture doesn't grow where the carrying of knives, particularly among some groups, becomes the norm. The family of Daniel, a 14-year-old schoolboy, held a news conference and said they did not harbour hard feelings over his death. "He died probably because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Daniel's uncle, Bol Machar, told ABC radio. "Thongjang (Daniel) was a bright boy, caring, loving, and mingled with other people very well. "We love him so dearly, we are proud of him and we miss him a lot," he said. The boy charged with his murder will appear in the Adelaide Youth Court on Monday, police said. A 16-year-old boy was arrested at the scene of the attack and charged with aggravated assault on police and resisting arrest. Mr Hyde also said laws should be amended to stop the scourge of knife crimes from spreading. Current laws allowed people to come up with "flimsy, invented and spurious" reasons for carrying knives, he said. "When we look around the world, you'll see that some countries do have serious problems with the carriage of knives and assaults with knives, including murders."