Two men, including a drill rapper, were shot dead and a third left critically injured by a gunman in a “joker mask” who smashed his way through garden fences to escape.
Armed police were called to reports of a fight in progress in east London and shots being fired inside a house on Henley Road, Ilford, shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
They arrived to find a 23-year-old man and 30-year-old man with fatal gunshot wounds and another 30-year-old man seriously injured. The assailant, or assailants, remained at large.
One of the victims has been named locally as a drill rapper who went by the moniker Giddy. He had reportedly been embroiled in a feud with a gang from Manor Park, in the neighbouring borough of Newham.
In the hours after he was shot dead, supporters of the rival gang posted gloating comments underneath Giddy’s drill music videos on YouTube.
“Manor just turned up the heat,” said one comment, followed by a skull and crossbones emoji.
However, one nearby neighbour told The Telegraph that they had seen a man “wearing all black and a black joker mask with a plastic nose” running through the neighbouring gardens just after the attack.
He said: “My son aged nine was watching the fireworks and then saw a man wearing all black clothing with a joker mask run through the garden. He broke the fence of the next door garden and was running across the extensions.”
The neighbour said he had seen police taking photographs of two mobile phones possibly dropped by the fleeing suspect.
CCTV images of the scene reportedly show a man arriving on a white bicycle shortly before the shooting.
A bicycle fitting this description was later recovered by police after it was abandoned at the side of the wall where Henley Road meets Ilford Lane, a busy thoroughfare where the gunman is thought to have fled towards.
Another neighbour described how he had rushed into the house and helped tend to the critically injured gunshot victim.
Ilford has been plagued by violent crime in recent years, with the feud between the area’s gangs and their rivals in Newham stretching back years.
It has led some residents to describe Ilford as an increasingly “no-go area”.
Sam Tarry, the Labour MP for Ilford South, said: “This is yet the latest in a recent wave of violence in our community. Not nearly enough is being done to combat violent crime and protect my constituents. I will be having urgent conversations with the Met.”
Scotland Yard mengatakan mereka percaya bahwa mereka mengetahui identitas korban berusia 20-an dan pekerjaan sedang berlangsung untuk menetapkan identitas korban lainnya.
Korban ketiga, berusia 30-an, dibawa ke rumah sakit, di mana ia tetap dalam kondisi kritis, menurut kepolisian.
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