Two men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 22-year-old who was fatally stabbed in south London. Police officers and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service were called to a property in Wisbeach Road, Croydon, just after 8pm on 5 February and found Lavaun Witter suffering a stab injury. He was pronounced dead at the scene an hour later. Two men, aged 20 and 22, were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of murder and are in custody at a south London police station. Witter’s family said in a statement that they had been left “absolutely devastated”. They added: “No one could have seen this coming. Lavaun was destined for greatness and he wanted to fly high. He just wanted to have a good life and to take care of his family. “Everyone who knows him will remember him as a legend. We are all absolutely traumatised. We don’t know how we are going to go on. It is just too painful.” Witter’s death was one of five similar incidents reported in the area between 6.56pm and 9.12pm on 5 February. At 11.20am the next day, a man in his 20s was stabbed in Coulsdon, south London, then shortly after 3pm police were called to a stabbing of a 24-year-old near West Croydon station. Then, at around 5.30pm on 6 February, Sven Badzak and a 16-year-old friend were attacked by a group in Kilburn, north-west London. Badzak later died in hospital.