Jermaine Goupall suffered multiple stab wounds at around 11pm last night after he spent a day with friends at the cinema.
Devastated family said the teenager was 'adored by his friends and relatives' and was popular in the community.
Witnesses claim the gang of thugs attacked Jermaine and a friend, repeatedly stabbing the teenager while the other boy hid beneath a car.
It came just hours after another teenager, 19, was stabbed to death in Peckham with police launching murder investigations into both incidents. At the family home Jermaine's father Stanley, an electrical engineer, 50, said: 'Jermaine was a lovely person and adored by the community and his friends and family.
'Nobody had nothing bad to say about him, he had a good heart and was such a lovely boy. 'Jermaine would put everyone before himself and would help anyone.
'He was into badminton and was a great at swimming, he enjoyed sports and loved his cat Happy.
'He was very good at maths and wanted to be a gas engineer and had talked about being an architect, he was very talented.
'He was very kind hearted and liked to share. He was a sociable boy who was loved by everyone and could talk to everyone regardless of whether it was children or adults.
I'm doing this because I want the perpetrators to know what a lovely boy my son was.'
Tilisha Goupall, 25, Jermaine's sister said: 'Last night the police rang the door bell and before I had messaged him on Snapchat and he did not respond, usually he will respond and say where he is and usually we pick him up. 'The police came shortly after 11pm, he had been out with friends all day and had gone to the cinema and then went out for dinner at a restaurant, he was catching up with his friends and was on his way home when it happened.
'He had nothing to do with them and was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was an innocent boy.'
Jermaine's friend Malachi, 14, added: 'He was a good person, into football and he was a good friend and cared for other people and was loved by many.
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