The family of a 15-year-old boy who died from stab wounds are determined he will not become just “another statistic in the rise of knife crime”.
Mohanad Abdullaahi Goobe died in Manchester on Monday afternoon.
Greater Manchester Police said another 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody for questioning.
Mohanad’s family said his life had been cut “tragically short”.
A moving statement from them said: “It is difficult to comprehend that seeing your son head off for school in the morning, would be the last time that we would see that handsome face.
“Mohanad deserves to be remembered for the young man who was loved by his family, and loved big in return, not as the boy whose life was taken with no thought or reason.
“We will not allow his name to be known as yet another statistic in the rise of knife crime.”
‘He often played the class clown’
His family remembered Mohanad, the youngest of three siblings, as “quick to laugh, easy to love, with a ready smile”.
They said he had an “uncanny ability to make you laugh, making it sometimes difficult to be serious with him”.
“Mohanad had many friends, he was loyal and often played the class clown, simply to see them laugh,” the statement added.
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Officers have appealed for witnesses and urged anyone with dashcam, CCTV, or mobile phone footage of the area near Moss Lane East and Monton Street at around 4.30pm on Monday to come forward.
But they asked for footage not to be shared on social media.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Davis, from the force’s major incident team, said: “We know just how shocking this incident has been for the whole community, and we are working hard to establish the full circumstances behind it.”
