A boy who was killed during a birthday party in a suburb of Bath has been named as 16-year-old aspiring rapper Mikey Roynon and described as “a kind loving and thoughtful soul”.
Mikey suffered a single stab wound apparently after deciding to attend the party at a house in Weston after seeing images of the event on social media.
Also known by his stage names as Mikey Young or YM, the teenager was stabbed at about 11pm at a house on Eastfield Avenue on Saturday night and died a short time later at the scene.
Police said on Monday that a postmortem examination had confirmed Mikey died from a single stab wound.
Mikey, from Kingswood, south Gloucestershire, had just finished his GCSEs,
Three boys – a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old from Wiltshire and a 15-year-old from Dorset – remain in police custody and continue to be questioned by detectives.
Eight teenagers who were arrested within half an hour of the incident on a bus nearby have been released from custody and no further action will be taken against them.
Det Insp Mark Newbury, of Avon and Somerset police’s major crime investigation team, said the investigation into the killing “continues at pace” with a team of officers and staff “working tirelessly to piece together what happened”.
Last month Ben Moncrieff, 18, died after an incident in Bath city centre. A 15-year-old boy from south London was charged with murder and possession of a bladed article.
Ch Insp Ronald Lungu, of the Bath neighbourhood policing team, said: “I hear the community’s concerns about this and other recent incidents and would like to reassure them we are doing everything we can to tackle knife crime in Bath, as well as in other towns and cities across our policing area.”
A friend of Mikey’s, Chyna-Lei Patterson, 18, who visited the scene, said: “He was a really talented musician and dreamed of making a career as a rapper. He spent a lot of time in various music studios in and around Bristol.”
She said he was with friends on a day out to Bath on Saturday. “Someone found out that there was a house party in Weston and they decided to go along,” she said. “I don’t think it was planned, I think they just decided on a whim having seen it on social media.”
A crowdfunding page has been set up to help his family with the funeral arrangements. Its organiser posted: “Mikey was such a kind loving and thoughtful soul who cared so much about his friends and family. He was so funny and fearless.”
