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Chilling moment e-bike killer shoots dead wrong man in tragic case of mistaken identity after opening fire in street
Gunman blindly shot at car in revenge for botched robbery
THIS is the chilling moment an e-bike killer shot dead the wrong man in a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Jake Brown, 23, was captured blindly opening fire in the Sheffield street in revenge for a botched robbery earlier that day.
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But as the killer fired the weapon, innocent Kevin Pokuta, 19, was blasted in the head by a bullet.
The teen, who had just been sat in a car with his brother at the time of the horror, was rushed to hospital but sadly couldn't be saved.
The footage then showed Brown calmly fleeing the scene on the e-bike.
He has now been jailed for at least 36 years after being convicted of murder.
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Sheffield Crown Court heard Brown and accomplices Leon Waite, Lester Ramsey, Adam Mulligan and a 17-year-old boy had plotted to rob a cannabis factory on December 12 last year.
But the raid was foiled when a car resembling Kevin's Skoda was driven at the group by one of the factory owners.
Hell-bent on revenge, Brown went on a hunt for the driver and instead stumbled across Kevin and his brother.
After mistaking the teen for his intended target, the killer pulled up to the car and pulled the trigger.
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Sentencing, Mr Justice Lavender told Brown: "You Jake Brown didn't know [Mr Pokuta] and you had nothing against him.
"It was a tragedy you fired up, no doubt, with the desire for revenge and mistook him for the man who drove at you earlier."
"He left behind a wife, two small children and two brothers, one who witnessed his death, and a mother and a father who died shortly after."
Police later identified the five gang members after trawling through thousands of hours of CCTV footage.
Brown was sentenced for murder, attempted GBH, conspiracy to commit robbery and two firearm offences.
Waite, 27, and Ramsey, 25, were each jailed for four years and six months for conspiracy to commit robbery.
Mulligan, 33, was sentenced to three years and six months for conspiracy to commit robbery, while the 17-year-old was handed a two-year Youth Rehabilitation Order for the same charge.
Kevin's devastated family said: "Kevin was a father of two very young children, his son was two when Kevin died and his daughter was just four months old.
"Kevin's son celebrated his third birthday, blowing out candles at his father's graveside. No child should ever have to do that.
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"Kevin will never get to see his children grow up. He never got to see his young daughter take her first steps or say her first words.
"Kevin will be loved and missed by us forever."
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