A TEENAGER from Sheffield was gunned down in broad daylight like a hoodlum in 1930s Chicago or a gangster in London's East End in the '60s, shocked jurors heard.
The "cold-blooded execution" of 17-year-old Tarek Chaiboub, fatally injured in a shoot-out, was ordered because he was seen as a "traitor" by the S3 postcode gang, Sheffield Crown Court was told.
Jurors heard the gang, which operates in Burngreave and Pitsmoor, had suffered a serious internal rift and Tarek had "a foot in both camps".
Tarek, of Castledine Gardens, Wincobank, was shot dead in July last year because he was friends with members on both sides of the feuding gang, the court head.
Two warring factions had developed, which had already resulted in the murder of a member on one side – Brett Blake – and the attempted murder of another on the other side – Junior Liversidge, a cousin of two of the defendants on trial.
Two days before Tarek was shot he was almost killed in a stabbing outside his home.
Paul Watson QC, prosecuting, told jurors Tarek was blamed for passing information to gang members Esmond Thompson and Isiah Nelson, which led to them stabbing 19-year-old Junior Liversidge "to within an inch of his life".
Tarek was friends with both the attackers and the victim.
His own death was said in court to have been "revenge" for helping them locate Junior Liversidge on the night he was knifed.
Mr Watson said of Tarek's death: "Last year a young boy was shot dead outside a shop on a street corner. It was a pre-planned and cold-blooded execution.
"Those who did it knew exactly what they were doing. In fact an earlier attempt to kill the same boy had failed.
"This time they made no mistake.
"This was not Chicago in the 1930s. Still less was it the East End of London in the 1960s.
"This happened less than a year ago on a Friday lunchtime on a busy thoroughfare."
The court heard Tarek, who was also carrying a gun, was blasted with a sawn-off shotgun outside Frenchie's barber's on Spital Street, Burngreave. Bullets recovered from the crime scene had been fired from a gun found close to his body as he lay dying on the ground.
Gang member Nigel Junior Ramsey, 22, of Andover Street, Burngreave – who jurors heard is known as 'The General' – is alleged to have organised the hit "pulling the strings" from his prison cell using a smuggled mobile phone.
His brother, Denzil Emanuel Ramsey, 20, also of Andover Street, Burngreave, Michael Jermain Chattoo, 21, of Daniel Hill Street, Upperthorpe, and a 17-year-old youth who cannot be named for legal reasons, are also charged with murder.
Nigel Ramsey, Chattoo, and 20-year-old Javan Richard Galloway of Nottingham Street, Burngreave, are also accused of attempted murder following the knife attack on Tarek.
The defendants deny all the charges.
The case continues.
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