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By Mike Hager

A heroic teen has died after being stabbed in the neck while trying to stop a fight on a bus Friday night in B.C.

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Jamie Kehoe, 18, reportedly tried to break up a fight between two women aboard a bus around midnight in Surrey, B.C., near Vancouver.

“He was grabbing her, [one of the women] and gasping, and when he fell on her she started screaming for someone to call the cops, call 911,” his mother Tammy told Global News.

Describing her son, she said: “He’s amazing, he’s sarcastic, he’s funny, he loves skateboarding, he’s harmless,”

The suspect, another man on the bus, and one of the fighting women fled the bus. Police followed a three-block-long blood trail, but have not made any arrests, Tammy told Global News.

The RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has now taken over the investigation from Surrey Mounties.

Investigators were tight-lipped as they continue to search for a suspect or suspects in the death.

“Right now we’re trying to determine what the victim’s relationship is to the suspect or suspects that are involved with this,” said IHIT spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Pound. “Our main message here is to speak to anyone that was on the bus who hasn’t spoken to police — we’re asking that you contact investigators.”