Cassius Turvey was trying to stop fight before 'racist' murder

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Cassius Turvey, a Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after he was deliberately struck to the head in Perth's eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.

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00:00Cassius was not just part of my life he was my future my family and my home

00:05the day he was taken from us is the day my world shattered he was murdered that truth

00:14is something i live with every single day it's not just the absence of his presence it's the

00:20silence where his laughter used to be the emptiness in moments we were supposed to share

00:27and the unbearable weight of knowing he didn't get to live the life that he deserved the pain is

00:34constant and the grief is immeasurable when Cassius was assaulted i asked him why he was going to look

00:45at a fight and because it's not Cassius to rock up at a fight and he said i was hoping to either talk

00:52them out of it or get them to have a fair fight so i think that's a testament to um Cassius and his

01:01mentorship and leadership well we don't hear that laugh no more that laugh was so loud he just the

01:09moment he walked into to a room you know the room changed and even when there was sadness going on

01:16Cassius had the knack of just you know making us laugh or just um getting us to look in a different

01:22direction um oh you could talk all day about Cassius and his values as a young man he's definitely an old soul

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