A gunman ‘assassinated’ a 15-year-old boy after shooting bullets into the air to clear crowds of parents and children during a family fun day, witnesses have claimed.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The teenager was fatally wounded at 7.20pm last night at the Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance open space – also known as ‘Teletubbies Park’ – in Ladbroke Grove, West London.
The boy died at the scene at ‘Park Lime’, which is an annual pre-Notting Hill Carnival event organised by the Caribbean Music Association featuring DJs and stalls.
It came just hours before a crew for the upcoming crime thriller movie Fuze, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James, were due to begin filming at the park today.
WHAT NEXT?
Six men were arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody, with the Metropolitan Police now working to identify the victim and inform his family.
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One 20-year-old told the Evening Standard: ‘Everyone was chilling, having a good time when I heard a shot. A guy shot in the air as a warning, it looked like, so people would clear out of the way. Then everyone scattered, we ran.
‘When the cries cleared he shot the boy. He was on the ground. Everyone was running and taking cover, it was mad. It was targeted, it looked like an assassination.’
The person added that there had been ‘lots of problems’ between a gang from the nearby Harrow Road and other rival groups in the area.
