Pic: Yasir
Crime reporter(wp/es):
A young man died after being gunned down in front of horrified shoppers in Kilburn as he crossed a busy high street.
Witnesses described how the victim, aged in his early 20s, staggered to the pavement and collapsed outside a cafe after being shot in the stomach yesterday.
Police sealed off a 200 yard stretch of Kilburn High Road as paramedics battled to save his life for 20 minutes, while scores of armed officers swarmed surrounding streets as they hunted the gunmen who were seen to flee down a side road into a housing estate.
The victim, named locally as Yasir, was said to have been accompanied by an older woman and a younger boy - thought to be relatives - when he was struck by a single shot.
One witness, takeaway worker Yosif, 27, said there was a single “loud bang”.
He said: “I assumed he’d been hit by a car because he looked disorientated and was wobbling.
“He was with an older woman and a younger boy. They were crying around his body, utterly distraught.”
A friend of the victim said he had been trying to turn his life around after being stabbed in a separate violent incident in Kilburn last year.
Bruno Tampo, 22, who runs a charity mentoring young people into work, said: “He got stabbed last year. He’d just recovered from that and I think he’d just moved in to a new place.
“When I found out he’d been shot I crumbled.
“Yasir had such a good heart. It’s crazy what happened to him. He was a good friend.”
A spokesman for the Met said detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating, and no-one had yet been arrested.
The killing comes three days after trainee gas engineer Salim Coulter, 24, was shot dead as he climbed into the passenger seat of a friend’s car in Fulham, four miles away.
Police said the gunman was “lying in wait” for Mr Coulter outside Jerky’s Jamaican restaurant in Walham Grove before blasting him in the head at close range.
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