How a 'youth offender phenomenon' captured Melbourne and didn't let go SunSunday 3 updated TueTuesday 5 JanJanuary 2021 at 12:14am Solomone was a regular at the Galuega house and friends with all six of Vaifoa's children. ( Share Print text only Cancel A light breeze blew through the final moments of an overcast afternoon as Vaifoa Galuega watched her son's best friend collapse. Warning: this story contains graphic content that some readers may find upsetting. Solomone Taufeulungaki, a six-foot-tall rugby player described by his teachers as a "protective teddy bear", landed in the arms of his best friend Keidis, blood seeping into his school shirt from multiple stab wounds, outside Brimbank Shopping Centre on Tuesday, June 16.