The killer of a 19-year-old Melbourne woman who died during a wild party in a city high-rise remains on the run.
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Laa Chol, 19, died during the out-of-control party in the short-term stay unit on the 56th floor of the EQ Tower early on Saturday morning.
A group of young African Australians, in their late teens and early 20s according to media reports, had rented the apartment for the party when a second group arrived and a fight broke out.
Her death comes days after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull renewed the debate over crime among African-Australian youths.
On Sunday, Premier Daniel Andrews said "any crime is a great tragedy and obviously our thoughts and prayers and best wishes are with everybody affected" but reiterated the government's efforts on tackling youth crime.
"If we want to have a proper discussion about youth crime or crime in any sense you can't ignore there is a need to invest in TAFE and the education system," he told reporters.
"There's enormous efforts that have been put in place in terms of engaging not only with individual young people, (but) their families, community leaders, getting them back to school, in to training, in to jobs, making sure they make much better decisions for themselves and the rest of the Victorian community.
"For some, that means spending some time in the youth justice facility, I make no apologies for that."
Mr Andrews said crime statistics showed rates were turning around and he had given Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton the tools police need.
On Saturday, Commander Tim Hansen said about 12 people had been interviewed over Ms Chol's death but they were not believed to be the killer.
"(It was a) fairly chaotic scene, there was obviously a number of people out the front," he told reporters.
"It would be fair to say they were upset, obviously, and quite emotive. However, the police members were never threatened or challenged and took control of the scene pretty quickly."
Ms Chol, from Pakenham, died at the scene shortly after 5am following a fight between the group that had hired the apartment and another that arrived later.
It's unclear what brought the second group to the apartment but Commissioner Hansen said there was no sign of forced entry.
Support was being offered to the African-Australian community, of which the victim and partygoers were members, he added.
Australian Associated Press
