The heartbroken mum of a teen murdered in a case of mistaken identity described the moment she found out her son had died - and how she couldn’t “protect him”.
Nikki Knight’s son, Mason Rist, 15, and his friend, Max Dixon, 16, were “hunted down” and stabbed in a “revenge attack” after being wrongly identified as culprits of an earlier incident.
The two pals were on their way to get a pizza when Anthony Snook, 45, arrived in his Audi with Riley Tolliver, 18, Kodi Wescott, 17, and two teenagers, aged 15, 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
CCTV footage - from Nikki's house - captured the horrific 33 second attack which began when four youth jump of the vehicle on Mason's doorstep, just metres from her the family home in Knowle, Bristol, where he grew up with his siblings.
Nikki Knight’s son, Mason Rist, 15, and his friend, Max Dixon, 16, were “hunted down” and stabbed in a “revenge attack” after being wrongly identified as culprits of an earlier incident.
The two pals were on their way to get a pizza when Anthony Snook, 45, arrived in his Audi with Riley Tolliver, 18, Kodi Wescott, 17, and two teenagers, aged 15, 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
CCTV footage - from Nikki's house - captured the horrific 33 second attack which began when four youth jump of the vehicle on Mason's doorstep, just metres from her the family home in Knowle, Bristol, where he grew up with his siblings.
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00:00My name's Nicky and I'm Mason's mum. I was actually out with me friends and I wasn't,
00:09you know, very far away. And my phone, my mobile went. And obviously it was the police.
00:17They rang for Mason's phone. Straight away I said, all right, all right, Mason, I'm coming
00:23home now. Because I was literally sort of up the road. Police officer said this is Ableton
00:29Somerset Constabulary. Your son's been stabbed. He's in a critical condition. And like straight
00:38away I thought, I'm not going to laugh. I thought it was just stupid. And I basically,
00:43and I felt really bad because I just said, oh, shut up. Well, you know, and I put the phone down
00:48and he said, no, no, no, this is, I said, oh, you're talking crap. Shut up. Just, I don't know
00:53why I thought, I just thought, I just thought someone was messing about. You know what I mean?
00:58Anyway, so I was actually on my way home. So I actually got a taxi home and the taxi driver said
01:03to me, oh, I don't know what's going on at, you know, this road, but police everywhere and
01:09helicopters. I'm like, and then it twigged a little bit and I thought, nah. So as I come up to my road,
01:18I couldn't even get to my street. It was all taped off. I had to run. And obviously then I seen a
01:24couple of the neighbours and a couple of little kids that said, oh, it's all right, Mason's in
01:29the house. So I thought, what's going on? And then someone said to me, no, no, no, he's in the
01:36ambulance. I'm like, what is going on? You know, you've got two ambulances. The police won't let
01:41me past. I think a friend said, oh, you know what? I'll take you to the BRI. And I'm like,
01:48it's just, it was just like a dream.
01:52At around 11.20pm last night, we received a report two people had been stabbed in an attack
01:58carried out by a group of people on Pilminster Avenue. The first officer was on scene within
02:03minutes and did what they could to provide first aid before the boys were taken to hospital by the
02:08ambulance service. Tragically, neither survived their injuries.
02:19Things happen. Maybe the park, you know, a bus stop, in the shop, outside your house. He was
02:26the youngest of my children. He was just, I mean, everyone will tell you Mason was a very, very
02:32quiet boy. He was a really good kid. And he'd loved his PlayStation. A typical day, he'd come
02:38home from school, he'd be upstairs in his bedroom, I'd be down here on my own. And he'd be ringing
02:42me on his mobile. Ma, what's for tea? And you know, he'd always want an Uber. You know, can we
02:48have a McDonald's? He was actually on his, he was actually on his PlayStation when I left.
02:54And I did say to him, I said, Mason, I said, you know, we can have a tea. He said, oh, I'm going
02:58to get a McDonald's, an Uber. So I put the money in. So I put the money in his bank account.
03:09And I put that 20 pound in his account. And before I left, I said, are you going to get your Uber?
03:17Oh, I can't. I can't talk to you now, Mum. Don't worry about McDonald's at the minute. I'm in a
03:22game. I can't. Now I'm having, you know, he's online with his mate. And he said, it's not the
03:28right time, Mum. It's not the right time to talk about McDonald's. I said, all right, make sure you
03:32get it. He said, all right, well, I ain't going to bloody die, am I, if we don't get a... I'm not
03:38going to die if we don't get a McDonald's. Mason, I mean, the only time Mason might have gone out
03:47is when, you know, his friend Max would come and just got basically up the road. But I always knew
03:52where he was. He had his phone on him. And he'd either be at Max's house or he'd be at a friend's
03:55house. And, you know, at 15 years of age, you know, friends, you just say to them, well, Nick, you need
04:00to let him out. Oh, no, I'm not letting him out. No, I'm not letting him out. Well, nothing's going
04:04to happen to him, Nick. I'm like, no. We've got kids killing kids. What is it with the knives?
04:09What is it with the knives? I think the sentencing, I think, is an absolute joke.
04:14You'd go and murder someone to get 15 years. If he was here now, he'd be upstairs. He'd come
04:21downstairs, go to the toilet, come down asking for food. But he'd stay in his room on that PlayStation.
04:27And that one night, for one night, I went out. This is what happened. And I wasn't here.