About Cameron Anderson

Canberra Times - Friends of murder victim Cameron Anderson have paid tribute to the young apprentice chef, described as ''one of the nicest kids you'd ever meet''.

The 19-year-old was stabbed several times in an attack in Kingston's Telopea Park late on Sunday night or early Monday morning and his body was found by child care workers arriving at a local centre on Monday morning.

A post-mortem on Mr Anderson's body, carried out yesterday, revealed he died from a wound to the chest.

Mr Cameron worked at Green Square's Kingston Grind cafe and at the nearby Holy Grail bar and restaurant and was a well known and popular figure among Kingston's hospitality set, often dropping into a local pub for a beer after he finished one of his shifts in the kitchen.

The apprentice chef had spent some of his late childhood and early teens in Young and in recent years had drifted back and forth between the NSW town and his family's Queanbeyan home.

One of Mr Anderson's many friends in Young said that he had been a close friend of her family and his death had left many of his acquaintances devastated.

''We are all shocked,'' she said. ''He was truly one of the nicest kids you'd ever meet.

She said many in the town were having trouble coping with their friend's violent death.

''One bloke has just broken down and he's a mess, an absolute mess,'' she said.

''Other people are struggling, they're all just in shock, some of the boys who had a lot to do with him have just fallen apart.

''Then other people are just angry that someone could just take his life.

''He was a very very popular boy and you'll see a heap of people coming from Young to Canberra for the funeral, a few carloads of them,'' she said.

Police have a suspect in the killing, a Kingston woman described as a ''person of interest'' who was questioned on Monday and released on Tuesday without charge.

She had been seen drinking with Mr Anderson in Green Square's Filthy McFadden's pub in the hours leading up to his death and police want to hear from anyone who knows how the pair came to be in Telopea Park and how the young restaurant worker sustained his wounds.

A local pub worker told The Canberra Times that Mr Anderson was well respected and never a source of trouble in Kingston's bars.

The sentiment was echoed among Mr Anderson's friends in Young.

''For Cameron to be in a confrontation with anybody, none of us can believe it,'' one said.

''He was such a gentle and harmless guy, he'd be the first to take off if there was any trouble.

''Cameron was just the last person that you'd expect to get into any sort of trouble.''