Queensland police have arrested a teenager, as part of investigations into a fatal stabbing at a shopping centre at Ipswich, west of Brisbane.
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00:00 This 15 year old boy, he's from Ripley, he handed himself in at the Ipswich Police Station
00:08 last night and he'll appear here at the Ipswich Magistrates Court this morning.
00:12 So this 15 year old boy has been charged with one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
00:19 That's in relation to an alleged stolen car.
00:23 But this is all related to what happened at the Redbank Plains Shopping Village on the
00:29 Saturday night.
00:30 It was early on Saturday night, it still would have been daylight Gemma, and it was a 70
00:35 year old grandmother, Violene White, she was at the shops with her 6 year old granddaughter.
00:41 They were just there doing some shopping.
00:43 And as she's gone to leave the shopping centre, she's got down to the car park area that's
00:47 underground under the shopping centre and that's where she has been attacked and she
00:52 has been stabbed in the chest and from the injuries she's sustained, she died from those
00:59 injuries.
01:00 Earlier on we did hear from the Ipswich Mayor, Theresa Harding, she says the community of
01:05 Redbank Plains is calling for more police.
01:09 We've been told by the police there will be a much more visible police presence, not just
01:12 here but in other shopping centres and other public areas in Redbank Plains.
01:16 So Gemma, police are still searching for three other people that were in the vehicle, they
01:23 were spotted on CCTV vision getting out of the 2009 Hyundai Getz, that was in the suburb
01:30 of Springfield Lakes that that vision was captured.
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