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CCTV shows a 15-year-old boy confronting 17-year-old Muhammad Ali in a busy city centre, before fatally stabbing him in the chest in a broad-daylight attack.
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00:00You
00:30They sat down on one of the benches and we're having a conversation around crickets
00:35What he didn't realize at that point in time was that he'd been followed by a 15 year old boy
00:41and once him and his friend were sat down that 15 year old boy confronted Muhammad and
00:48Suggested that he had been involved in a previous assault on the cousin of that 15 year old boy
00:54There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that that's the case 15 year old boy kept on pressurizing him and accusing him
01:00to the point where Muhammad essentially told him to go away and it was at that point that he pulled a knife out of his
01:06Clothing and stabbed Muhammad sadly straight through the chest. The CCTV is horrific
01:12This is a Saturday afternoon in the middle of Birmingham city centre
01:15it's a very busy area not only shoppers, but tourists who just come to see that part of the city and the fact that
01:23Yeah, a young man
01:25Can be having that nice day out with his friend and then suddenly he's confronted by someone who's happy to carry a knife and then
01:32Use a knife and stab him in the way that he was stabbed
01:35He's just awful
01:37Devastating impact on Muhammad's family, you know, they have lost their son in the most horrific of circumstances
01:45Yeah, they thought he was safe
01:48in Birmingham
01:49And yeah, like all families touched by this type of tragedy they will say their life will never be the same again
01:56I'll never see him grow up get married have children, you know, and the void that has been left in their lives is almost unmeasurable
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