A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with murder after a young Brisbane man died in a violent fight at a shopping centre food court.
Disturbing footage has emerged of a bloody fight between two groups of men in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane early on Monday morning.
The men exchanged insults at each other inside the Valley Metro complex before one allegedly pulled out a knife and threatened others. Moments later 24-year-old Lauie Michael Tagaloa is struck in the neck and falls to the ground in a pool of blood.
He later died at the scene.
The clip shows two groups shouting at each other at about 4am, before one group attempts to walk away from the disturbance.
A fight then breaks out between two men and Tagaloa is seen stumbling backwards before collapsing from a wound to his neck.
Police are speaking to witnesses who attempted to save Tagaloa by administering first aid to the young man.
Three men who allegedly fled the scene immediately after the brawl have since been arrested.
A 20-year-old man from Birkdale was charged with murder on Monday afternoon and will face Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Two other men, aged 20 and 21, have been assisting police with their investigations and are yet to be charged.
“Police will allege an altercation occurred between two groups of men in a Brunswick Street mall at approximately 4am,” police said in a statement. “The altercation allegedly continued inside a shopping complex off Brunswick Street. During this altercation, it is alleged the 24-year-old Bray Park man was fatally stabbed.”
It’s not believed the two groups of men were known to each other.
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