Teen stabbed in front of his cousin while going to the movies pictured for the first time
A teenage boy who planned to go to the movies with his brother was instead stabbed to death in front of his cousin.
The investigation is still ongoing after 16-year-old Pasawm Lyhym was killed Thursday afternoon at the Sunshine Station bus interchange in Melbourne’s west.
His cousin, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was on the bus when she saw someone stab her cousin.
Pasawm’s brother, Mawm, 24, said he was at work at the time of the incident and spent hours with his brother’s body while police examined it.
16-year-old Pasawm Lyhym (pictured) was on his way to the movies to watch the new Fast and Furious movie with his brother when he was stabbed to death Thursday afternoon
Pasawm planned to watch the new Fast and Furious movie after his brother.
“We have a group chat between siblings and I messaged them saying ‘Do you guys want to watch Fast and Furious on Thursday night?’ said Mawm on Friday morning.
“He was the first to respond, (he said) ‘yeah, let’s go’.”
Mawm learned of his brother’s death after receiving a call from Pasawm’s friend.
“I googled it. I saw nothing. I didn’t believe it until all his friends started calling and texting me on Instagram. Then I left work,” he said.
He tried to Facetim, call, and text his brother, but got no response.
He then revealed that he and his family had stayed with Pasawm’s body for hours until 12:30 a.m. when the coroner came for him.
“We couldn’t go to the coroner’s office, so we had to go home,” he said.
“He had been here six or seven hours. In this cold weather he sat on the concrete.’
His cousin revealed to The Herald Sun that she was on a bus when she witnessed the attack.
“I yelled and said, that’s him, that’s him (her cousin),” she said.
“I tried to run and get help. I didn’t want to look. It all happened so fast.’
His family remembered him as “funny, very nice, a welcoming and friendly person” and stayed with his body for hours until just after midnight when he was taken away by the coroner.
Mawm remembered his brother as “funny, very nice, a welcoming and friendly person.”
“He didn’t do anything, life isn’t fair,” he said.
Flowers, candles and other memorials were placed by family and friends at the bus shelter on Friday morning.
Mawm urged the perpetrator to come forward and apologize to his family.
‘You come to us. We want to see you, whoever did this. I want you to apologize,” he said.
A self-named witness told 3AW that the attacker was “the one screaming.”
They also claimed to be wearing a black hoodie and fled.
Pasawm attended Staughton College in Melbourne and often visited the hub to hang out with friends after school.
Several family members gathered at the interchange on Thursday as detectives inspected the crime scene.
Pasawm’s family arrived in Australia from Burma in 2013 and have been part of Melbourne’s Chin community ever since.
Emergency services were called to Station Place in western Melbourne at about 3:45pm on Thursday and are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident
Emergency services were called to Station Place at about 3:45pm after reports of an injured man.
Victoria Police say the exact circumstances surrounding the incident are yet to be determined and the homicide unit is investigating.
The area around Sunshine train station has been cordoned off while crime scene investigators investigate the area.
There have been reports of youths with knives hanging around the bus interchange.
Trains on the Sunbury line ran non-stop through Sunshine station for nearly an hour at the request of police.
Police have asked anyone who witnessed the incident or has CCTV, mobile phone or camera footage to contact police.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.