Shocked

Moshean Cameron, 23, a black married man from Littlemore, was stabbed once through the heart following an argument with someone outside the Blackbird Leys Community Centre in Blackbird Leys Road at 6.15pm on April 30.

Police and paramedics tried to resuscitate him but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington.

His killer is still at large but detectives hunting him down sealed off an area off Windale Avenue, near to the murder scene, where a car crashed shortly after the stabbing.

More than a dozen bunches of flowers have been placed at the spot where Mr Cameron died.

One read: "Mushy mate, devastated. No-one deserves this. Justice will be done. RIP."

Police have said they have ruled out racial motivation for the attack, but said it could be connected to drugs.

Meanwhile people living near the community centre, which will remain closed until further notice, voiced alarm that such a crime should happen right on their doorsteps.

Some feared that once again the reputation of the whole Blackbird Leys community could suffer as a result. Over the past two years, parish councillors and community leaders have welcomed the rise in local pride, as well as the police crackdown on drug-dealing and abuse which had blighted the Leys area for many years.

Parish chairman Brian Lester, said: "We've managed to shake off the joyriding problems of 10 years ago, and now we're going to get a bad name over this sort of thing.

"I don't know what the reasons were behind it but I hope people who were there and who know who was will give up those responsible."

Cafe owner, Tony Chase, 46, spoke the morning after the murder and said people had been shocked by what had happened.

He said. "Too many people are hanging around here, and drugs happen, but not so bad in recent months because the police are doing lots of work here. I see users, but not dealers like before."