A man has been charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck in Huddersfield.
Officers were called to Ramsden Street in the town centre at about 2.45pm on Thursday, West Yorkshire police said. The teenager received a single wound to the neck and died in hospital.
Alfie Franco, 20, of Kirkburton, was charged with murder and possessing a knife in a public place, the force said. He is due to appear at Leeds magistrates court on Saturday.
A 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been released on bail. Police said the incident was “not gang-related”.
A police spokesperson said: “Following the murder of a 16-year-old boy in Huddersfield [on Thursday], we are aware of misinformation circulating on social media, specifically X, regarding the circumstances of the incident and the ethnicities of those involved.
“We are limited in what we can say legally, but what we can advise is the incident is not gang-related or linked to any wider dispute between groups.”
Inquires into the incident are ongoing.
Alison Lowe, the West Yorkshire deputy mayor for policing and crime, said the teenager’s death was “an absolute tragedy”.
She added: “Even though we’ve had several young people die across West Yorkshire by knife crime over the last five years, it is still a very rare event.”
