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Passer-by caught suspects after trying to save boy

Lewis Adamsand
Shariqua Ahmed,in Peterborough
Steve Huntley/BBC Reece Huggins has fair hair and is wearing a cream hoodie and a navy jacket. He is standing in front of a parade of shops.Steve Huntley/BBC
Reece Huggins was confronted with the scene of a stabbing after dropping his son home in Peterborough

A man has described the moment he tried to save a boy who was stabbed, before catching his suspected killers.

Reece Huggins found Baye Bireme Fall critically injured near the Ortongate Shopping Centre in Peterborough on 12 April.

He performed CPR on the 16-year-old and then managed to catch the people he believed killed Baye as they fled.

"It all happened so fast, [within] minutes," Huggins told the BBC.

Aspiring lawyer Baye suffered a single stab wound in Riseholme at just before 19:00 BST.

Family handout Baye Bireme Fall - a boy with short black hair, wearing a black and white striped tracksuit top, looking at the camera. He is sitting in a car.Family handout
Baye Bireme Fall has been described by his family as an "amazing son"

Huggins was among hundreds of people who attended a vigil in memory of the teenager near the scene on Saturday night.

He said: "I panicked, I didn't know what to do or how to help him. It's still a shock to me now.

"All I see is his face when he was on the floor and me trying to do what I can to help him, but unfortunately I couldn't."

Huggins said he managed to catch the people he suspected of knifing Baye and handed videos of them to the police.

Two people were later charged with murder and are due to enter a plea to the charge at Cambridge Crown Court on 19 May.

They are Emidas Krutkevicius, 18, from Garton End Road, Peterborough, and a 15-year-old boy who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Shariqua Ahmed/BBC Lots of balloons, which are mostly red or pink, rise up to a cloudy sky having been let off by people below.Shariqua Ahmed/BBC
Tributes were paid to Baye during the large gathering in Peterborough on Sunday

Community leaders made speeches - and tributes were left to Baye during Saturday's vigil.

The boy's father, Khalifa Fall, said he was "shocked" to see so many people present.

A translator speaking on his behalf said: "This shows his son had a very, very good relationship with the people.

"He doesn't want the kids to take it into their own hands. We are ready for the justice and we need justice to be served."

Shariqua Ahmed/BBC A small tented canopy is within the cordon. Police officers are standing around the cordon. Shariqua Ahmed/BBC
An area near the shopping centre and a school were cordoned off by the police

Shabina Qayyum, the Labour leader of Peterborough City Council, told the gathered crowd that Baye's death would not be in vain.

"Kindness and compassion has become lost not only in our city, but in our country," she said.

"The strength of people over here tells me that Bibi's name will never be forgotten."

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