Brixton shooting: Drill rapper and Deliveroo driver named as vic

The son of a boxing promoter has become the latest in a string of drill rappers who have died in violent attacks in London.

Lamar Scott, 27, who finished as Perm, was shot after a automobile chase in Brixton, south London, on Sunday.

His father is boxing promoter Dean Whyte who represents heavyweight Dillian Whyte, PA Media employer reviews.

Deliveroo driver Guilherme Messias da Silva, 23, also died after he changed into knocked off his moped at some point of the chase.

No arrests were made.

Speaking to Globo, nursing technician Rosângela Messias de Sousa, 46, said she “went into despair, screamed, fainted” after getting to know approximately the loss of life of her son.

“It’s very unhappy, my coronary heart is bleeding. It hurts everything,” she stated, including that her son had moved to London to work.

Detectives trust Mr Scott got out of the car after it crashed with the moped and other cars, earlier than he became chased via any other man and fatally shot.

The gunman is then idea to have were given back into his automobile and fled the location. Police said he was nonetheless being hunted for.

The killings are the today’s in a spate of gun attacks in the capital, consisting of a triple taking pictures in Ilford, east London, on 25 October wherein Saydi Abu Sheikh, 23, who rapped under the name Giddy, and Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 32, who used the call Shifty, both died.

In September some other rapper, Maximillian Kusi-Owusu, 29, known as M Lo, became shot in Kensington High Street, and on the final day of the Notting Hill Carnival in August, Takayo Nembhard, referred to as TKorStretch, become fatally stabbed.

There have been some other 3 deadly shootings in London inside the area of six days in July.

Camilo Palacio, 23, in Wood Green, north London, and Sam Brown, 28, in Cheney Row Park, Waltham Forest, east London, each died in separate attacks on 24 July.

Daneche Tison, 26, become killed in Bruckner Street, Queen’s Park, west London, on 19 July.

The following month, on thirteen August, Kacey Boothe, 25, changed into shot outside a child’s birthday party in Walthamstow, east London.

According to Met Police figures, there were 12 deadly shootings amongst 134 homicides investigated by means of the force for the duration of the entire of 2021.

Between 31 October closing yr and 19 July this year, there were additionally no fatal shootings in London.