FLOWERS FROM BOYS IN THE HOOD
Masked kids clash as tributes laid where teenager Amaan Shakoor was gunned down
MASKED mourners clashed at the scene of a deadly shooting yesterday as gang tensions threatened to escalate in London.
The hooded youths were separated by police with batons at the spot where Amaan Shakoor, 16, was gunned down.
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Some clutched flowers while wearing balaclavas to hide their faces and wrestled with cops who tried to bring order. Two extra police vans and a dog unit had to be brought in. Officers then searched youths involved in the melee.
The scuffle broke out as well- wishers arrived to pay their respects to Amaan, who was shot in the face outside a leisure centre in a suspected postcode gang turf war.
His pal Mohammed Asghar, 15, also suffered life-changing stab wounds to his arm in the incident in Walthamstow, East London.
The pair were with two more friends when two masked assailants attacked. The killers made their getaway in a white car.
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Amaan’s dad Mohammed said: “He was a wonderful son. We are obviously devastated.”
Another relative told reporters: “We are so sad, he was a lovely boy and now he’s gone.
“He went out to see friends and never came back, it’s so shocking.”
The crime scene is in the shadow of Kelmscott Secondary school where Amaan and Mohammed Asghar met and became pals.
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College student Mohammed was taken to hospital but was back home yesterday. His minicab driver dad, Ali, 42, said: “My son said two guys in balaclavas got out of a white car.
“One of the guys shot and missed and then shot Amaan through the left eye. My son lost a lot of blood, he’s lucky to be alive. He could have been shot.”
One witness said the violence erupted over a dispute about drugs. Damian Slay, 17, said hooded thugs shot Amaan after warning him not to sell cocaine on their patch.
He said: “It’s like turf wars. Certain areas are controlled by certain groups and if you sell in an area that you shouldn’t, people get upset. They are just little hood-rats.”
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Yesterday friends laid flowers and even a bottle of Hennessy cognac at the spot where Amaan was shot in the second gang-related killing in the capital in the space of an hour.
Tanesha Melbourne, 17, died in a drive-by shooting in Tottenham, North London, also on Monday night.
The youth worker was standing with a pal who was thought to have been the intended target.
The shooting was said to have been carried out by the WG (Wood Green) gang in its feud with rivals NPK (Northumberland Park).
It was sparked by a fight in Tinseltown, an American-themed diner in central London on Easter Sunday.
In footage on social media, three men are seen punching and kicking a young black man in a stairwell as a woman tries to protect him.
It is believed the victim of the beating was rapper Bobby Slater, who uses the nickname Bob Da Builda and is said to have links to WG.
The punch-up was captured on camera at the diner where police swooped to seize the CCTV yesterday.
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In Tottenham, mum-of-four Salema Zaman, 52, said a stray bullet from the shooting was fired through her front window.
She said: “We thought someone had thrown something at the window.
“Then we saw the bullet. We were scared stiff. My family were all in the living room. Someone going round shooting like that is terrifying.”
Another bullet fired from the car was retrieved from the wall of a house close to where Tanesha fell.
Teenager Amaan Shakoor shot last night in East London has been confirmed dead by police
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