Cops have charged a teenager with the murder of Oliver Kingonzila.

Triston Burke, aged 18, of Stanton Road, will appear at Croydon Magistrates Court today over the stabbing to death of the promising young footballer on Saturday night in Croydon.

The accused was arrested on the same day.

Gang related?

There were reports during the week that the murder was gang related.

Oliver Kingonzila was killed outside the E Bar after drinking with friends on the busy South End Road, South Croydon after receiving multiple stab wounds in a fight around 1am Saturday morning.

While it's thought Oliver wasn't involved in local thuggery, his attackers are believed to be gang members. The fatal knifing appears to be unprovoked.

More arrests - suspect injured

Another man, aged 18, was also arrested in connection with the inquiry on 13 September. He has been bailed to return to a south London police station in late September pending further enquiries.

One suspect was treated for knife wounds to his hands. Witnesses saw this man running towards HUB leaving a trail of blood back to the scene of the crime. CCTV tracked the injured assailant for 400 yards before he collapsed in the street.

Blood splattered on streets

The 19-year-old Barnet FC footballer, described as a 'gentle giant' by his shocked friends, lost consciousness at the scene and died just an hour after he was knifed.

Police sealed off the stretch of South End and a section of West Street behind the Half 'n' Half Lounge Bar. An evidence marker 'Q' and a blanket shrouded pools of blood outside Streeter Marshall Solicitors.

Older brother died in February

Oliver's distraught mother will now bury her second son this year after her older boy Herve, 27, died of a suspected heart attack on the football pitch in February.

Miss King-Onzila says she 'forgives' her son's killers who have the 'demons' inside them. His father received the news while in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is flying straight home to Oliver surviving younger brother and sister.

Just a month after 'racist' murder

This, the 26th violent death of a teenager in London this year comes less than a month after the reportedly racist murder of 17-year-old Nilanthan Murddi nearby in West Croydon.

While Croydon's murder squad try to piece together this latest fatality, locals accuse police of not doing enough to stem disorder along the busy thoroughfares of High Street and South End that lead to the town centre.

Last Tuesday a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the shoulder outside East Croydon train station after an argument flared up between groups of children in school uniforms.

Another man, aged 18, was also arrested in connection with the inquiry on 13 September. He has been bailed to return to a south London police station in late September pending further enquiries.