'We want justice for Qayyum': Family seeks answers after fatal stabbing
Qayyum Balogun died following an assault in Dublin City in the early hours of Monday.
The family of a young man killed in a Dublin city assault in the early hours of Monday morning have said that are seeking answers and justice for their son.
Qayyum Balogun, 21, suffered fatal injuries after he was attacked following a row at a club event on Grafton St in the city.
Gardaí are investigating reports that the victim tried to flee his attackers but that they pursued him and attacked him on nearby Clarendon St.
They continue to appeal for witnesses.
Mr Balogun’s mother Teslimot Balogun described the shock inflicted upon on her family from his death.
“When we got to the hospital, I found my son's dead body,” she told RTÉ’s programme.
“That was around 5am in St James's Hospital in Dublin.”
Ms Balogun described her son as a friendly, easy-going person who was best friends with his father.
He was born in Ireland and the family has lived in Dundalk for more than two decades.
His stepmother Loveth Patrick, meanwhile, described Qayyum as the “sweetest soul” who was gentle and calm, and hit out at what she described as false information being shared online about him.
Ms Patrick said a focus for the family now is to understand how this happened.
"That is the question we want and we want justice for Qayyum,” she said.
Speaking on the same programme, his former school principal Padraig McGovern of Ó’Fiaich College in Dundalk said he was a “lovely young lad” who was a key part of the school community.
"A guy with ambition, a guy with a goal and a chap that was making this goal real and being successful," he said.
"A credit to his family, a credit to his community.
“Our school here that's preparing for exams, just everybody here is really shocked, and the wider community, people are ringing me as well in shock and almost disbelief.
"And I cannot imagine what has come on his family.”
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