Better social cohesion and a wider community response is needed to address escalating youth violence five years after a 15-year-old boy's "senseless" fatal stabbing, a coroner says.

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Victorian Coroner Ingrid Giles on Thursday delivered her finding into the 2020 death of Solomone Taufe'ulungaki.

Following days of fights between two gangs, on June 16 2020, Solomone, 15, was dragged to the ground and hit with a baseball bat at Brimbank Shopping Centre car park, in Melbourne's west.

He died after one of the boys, also aged 15 at the time, stabbed him in his chest and pierced his heart.

The young man who inflicted the fatal wound was jailed fo

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