Student stabbed to death at New Year’s Eve party dreamed of being a pilot
A YOUNG victim of the New Year's Eve knife attacks had devoted his life to becoming a pilot, it was revealed last night.
Pals watched on in horror as tragic Steven Narvaez Jara, 20, was brutally knifed to death during a row at an East London house party, one of four fatal stabbings on the final night of 2017.
Friends and family paid tribute to Ecuador-born Steven, who studied physics and aerospace at the University of Herefordshire.
Writing on a set up to pay for his funeral, family friend Katheryne Herrera said: “He was passionate about music as well as football.
"A young man who was loved amongst his family and peers and as the Ecuadorian young man he was, he was full of life and loved a great party. He left behind a loving mother, father and three younger sisters.”
Grief-stricken family members gathered this week at Belvedere home he shared with his parents Steven and Viviana.
A tearful uncle told reporters: “He was a very popular boy.”
Neighbours at the block of flats where Steven was attacked told how they heard his tearful friends wailing in anguish as paramedics rushed to stem the bleeding.
One said: “I heard some girl shout out, crying, ‘Oh, he’s been stabbed’.”
Steven's murder was one of six killings on New Year's Eve and the early hours of New Year's Day, including four in London alone.
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A middle-aged woman and four men were murdered in separate attacks, while another man died of head injuries in Leeds.
A 17-year-old boy was knifed at 11:30am on New Year's Eve in Enfield, North London, the first to die in a wave of unrelated stabbings across South, East and North London.
One man died from head injuries in Seacroft, Leeds after police rushed to an address following reports of a man with a gun at 4:36pm New Year's Day.
Four separate murder probes have now been launched following the horror last night.
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