Locals at the scene expressed their shock at another murder in the city. <br /><br />Sarah Smith, 67, a business owner and councillor, said: "Its right across Bristol. This has been going on for a long time. After the stabbing of Eddie Kinuthia, the church was packed with young people.<br /><br />“Bristol’s segregated, but now with knife crime it’s almost like it’s become unified. <br /><br />“The thing is Bristol is such a small city, we’ve always had the village mindset so there’s not much distance between the postcodes.”<br /><br />Maryam, 35, who works in education and has just moved to the area said: <br /><br />“It’s a bit saddening to be honest when there’s a stabbing because you just think it’s going to create disharmony.<br /><br />"It doesn’t make me scared to walk home at night because I think stabbings happen all over the place. <br /><br />""But it does make me wary because I’ve not noticed many stabbing, I’ve just noticed that over the last couple of months there have been a lot of stabbings happening around Bristol. So I think what worries me is the trend of the stabbings. <br /><br />"It doesn’t worry me that it’s happened in this area, because I think it’s happening around Bristol in general at the moment. <br /><br />"And unfortunately, it’s always going to be for poorer socio economic areas that get hit. <br /><br />"But I wouldn’t necessarily say the are is unsafe, it’s usually a very community based, lovely area.”<br /><br />Mustafa Abdullah, 39, who is on income support, said: “We live across, and we received information from the police and they said someone’s been stabbed. <br /><br />“It’s been six (recent stabbings) it’s really scary and feels like it's happening every day. <br /><br />“It can be me next. It’s really scary. It’s getting too much - it’s really bad.<br /><br />"I feel like it has got less safe to live in Bristol."
