WA Police charge three people with murder of 17-year-old Chikayne Heslip at Waikiki party
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Chikayne Heslip's family says the teenager appears to have died protecting his friends.
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WA Police have charged three people with murdering a teenage boy in Waikiki, south of Perth, on Saturday night.
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Assistant Commissioner Brad Royce says the people responsible are "cowards"
The family has remember Chikayne as a "beautiful, caring young man"
A 17-year-old boy from Port Kennedy, an 18-year-old man from Wellard and a 27-year-old man from Waikiki have all been charged with murder.
It is alleged the 17-year-old victim, Chikayne Heslip, was assaulted by a group near the corner of Porpoise Grove and Andes Close.