Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were caused by Tybalt, who was Juliet’s cousin, and Mercutio who was Romeo’s cousin. The sides of the family not getting along was the reason Mercutio and Tybalt fought, and they both ended up dead,and Romeo was banished. Tybalt was the instigator of most of the fights that happened in the story, in lines 35 through 140 in the story Tybalt is encouraging the brawl that killed both himself and Mercutio. He was also the reason the Prince passed the law of banishment in lines 185 through 195.
If Tybalt never killed Mercutio, the Romeo would have never been banished. Tybalt had started the fight, calling out Romeo in lines 35 and in lines 60 through 65. Mercutio ended up dead due to a fatality wound. Tybalt had kept getting into fights, which resulted in the Capulets Prince declaring that anyone who started a fight would be banished in lines 185 through 195 in the story. Tybalt did not like Romeo simply because he was a Capulet and Romeo was a Montague.
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Mercutio interfered because Romeo was his cousin, he was standing up for his blood. Mercutio should have let Romeo fight his own battles, instead of fighting for him, then Mercutio would not have been stabbed, therefore he would still be alive and Romeo would not have been banished for killing Tybalt. Mercutio dying angered Romeo and he returned to the fight, and slayed Tybalt, causing a scene and the Prince of the Capulets banished