A man is in custody after a Bendigo teenager was allegedly stabbed to death in regional Victoria at the weekend.
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton has confirmed a man is in custody after an 18-year-old man died in the Bendigo suburb of Ironbark on Saturday evening.
"In relation to this stabbing that occurred in Bendigo the homicide squad do have a suspect in custody," Mr Patton told reporters in Melbourne on Monday.
"That investigation is ongoing at this moment."
The Herald Sun reports the victim is Bendigo man Hayden Coleman.
Hundreds of people have posted tributes on social media, including the teenager's sister, who called him her "knight in shining armour".
"Hayden was not only my blood he was truly my knight in shining armour. (He) always had my back and was always there when I needed someone," Amanda Coleman posted on Facebook.
"We literally had what I thought was an unbreakable bond until some little feral took his life and every shred of hope I had with it."
Hayden's sister also posted a previously unheard track by the aspiring rapper.
Friend Casey Halson said: "He was a gorgeous young fella to (sic) that had the world in his hands".
"It just sucks it was taken by the hands of someone else," Emiily Swinnerton wrote on Facebook.
Police forced entry to a house in the Bendigo suburb of Kangaroo Flat on Sunday while searching for the teen's killer, the Herald Sun and local media report.
