'He was very good, or very close' - Gun expert says marksman fired six shots in six seconds to kill rapper outside Telford gym
A ballistics expert has told how an attacker fired six shots in six seconds to kill a man outside a gym in Telford.
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Stafford Crown Court was told that all the bullets which killed 20-year-old rapper Tamba Momodu at the Bridges Business Park in Horsehay were fired from the same gun.
The evidence came from ballistics expert Andre De Villiers Horne, during the trial of four men accused of murdering Mr Momodu on October 13, 2020.
The court has previously heard that Mr Momodu, who was known as Teerose, had moved from north London to Telford with his family in 2018 to start a new life after being acquitted of murdering 19-year-old Abdullahi Tarabi - a rapper known as Teewiz who died after being stabbed in an alleyway in Northolt in April 2017.
Prosecutors allege Mr Momodu was “stalked” and tracked down by Tarabi’s older brother and cousin who were intent on revenge.
Ahmed Karshe, 30 and of no fixed abode; Deria Hassan, 32 and of Ferrymead Avenue, Greenford, London; Mahamud Tarabi, 32 and of Whiteleys Parade, Uxbridge; and Merje Ngoy, 24, whose address was given as HMP Hewell, all deny charges of murder.
Hassan has pleaded guilty to a charge of arson, relating to the Skoda.
Karshe, Tarabi and Ngoy each deny arson.
Mr Momodu was killed as he sat in the passenger seat of a friend’s Renault Megane outside the Fitness Factory gym.
Prosecutors allege that Mr Momodu’s friend had unknowingly parked his Megane next to a Skoda Karoq on false plates which had been stolen from London in July 2020.