GoFundMe<\/a>, Chloe’s cousin, Shantelle Watson wrote: “My 16-year-old cousin\u2019s life was sadly taken in tragedy. 16 years young. She didn\u2019t even make it to her 18th \u2013 her whole life was taken in a flash over a boy. Her mum is distraught; she has left two younger siblings behind.”<\/p>\nShe added: “I wanted to create a GoFundMe to help give her the best send off possible. She didn\u2019t deserve this; she was so full of life, such an innocent, beautiful soul taken too soon.”<\/p>\n
Two grandfathers had tried to save Chloe, who they discovered wounded in their quiet street. Wayne Mallows, 64, described waking up at 5am, but had seen or heard nothing until a knock at his door 50 minutes later.<\/p>\n
\u201dI was called out of the house about 5.50am on Saturday morning by a dog walker. She said that my neighbour was outside doing CPR on a young girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Mallows said that his neighbour, who had been carrying out the CPR, lives across the street.<\/p>\n
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Police have launched a murder investigation (Image: Facebook)<\/p>\n
The teenage girl was on the pavement directly opposite his neighbour’s home on Kennerleigh Avenue, in the Crossgates area of East Leeds, which is now behind a police cordon.<\/p>\n
Mr Mallows, speaking near the quiet street of bungalows with neat gardens, said he “went out” and could see his neighbour “was getting tired”.<\/p>\n
“I asked if they\u2019d rung an ambulance and then I realised that a phone was on the ground and he had it on loud speaker. Ambulance control were giving him instructions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Mallows, who works in audiology for the NHS, said he\u2019d received mandatory training in CPR on a mannequin, but never performed it in person.<\/p>\n
“I took over until the ambulance arrived ten minutes later,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the ambulance arrived around 6am the paramedics got all the kit out and tried to reactivate the heart and they were doing chest compressions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did that for about five minutes and then got her into the ambulance. Police were arriving all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said she had been stabbed in the back also said there was a wound to her neck.<\/p>\n
Despite the traumatic experience Mr Mallows said he is bearing up but is struggling to get the girl\u2019s face out of his head. \u201cIn my mind I have a picture of her face,\u201d said Mr Mallows. “To me she looked very young, younger than 16.:”<\/p>\n
Mr Mallows confirmed that Kennerleigh Avenue and neighbouring streets are normally very quiet. \u201cIt is mostly elderly people in the bungalows, they come here to retire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The girl was found ‘stabbed’ in a quiet residential street(Image: Google)<\/p>\n
Officers said they were called at 5.55am on Saturday to the quiet residential area in Leeds, where she was found with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Initially West Yorkshire Police took the unusual step of releasing her description to ascertain her identity; describing her as a 5ft 2in slim woman aged in her late teens.<\/p>\n
But now her friends and family have posted about their devastation and named her on social media, with one saying they were \u201cheartbroken\u201d and said she had so much love for her little sisters.<\/p>\n
Paying tribute to the teen, her pals wrote: \u201cYour bubbly personality, your weird laugh, your cringy jokes will forever be unmatched. You always made sure everyone was feeling litty and loved\u2026it\u2019s truly devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four people – two women aged 18, a man aged 20 and a 17-year-old boy – were all arrested from a nearby address on suspicion of murder and remain in custody, police said.<\/p>\n
Detectives said on Sunday the girl has been positively identified as a 16-year-old from the Cleckheaton area. Her family have been notified and are now being supported by specially-trained officers.<\/p>\n
Senior investigating officer, Detective Chief Superintendent Marc Bowes, said: “Following our appeal for further information yesterday, we have now identified the deceased as a 16-year-old girl from the Cleckheaton area.<\/p>\n
“Her family have been informed and we are supporting them as they try to come to terms with what has happened.<\/p>\n
“Our inquiries into the incident which led to her death are continuing, and I would appeal again to anyone who was in the Kennerleigh Avenue area in the early hours of yesterday morning to come forward if they have any information which could assist our investigation.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to call police on 101, or use the live chat options at westyorkshire.police.uk\/livechat<\/a>, quoting log 280 of March 28.<\/p>\nInformation can also be given anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl has died after she was discovered in a quiet residential street in the Crossgates area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,2207,12151,1860,211,16,15,20653],"class_list":{"0":"post-859801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hospitals","13":"tag-knife-crime","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-nhs","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-yorkshire-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116316741839170261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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