Still no justice for young Sheffield dad gunned down in street - 17 years on
He died in a pool of blood as friends and passers-by battled in vain to save his life
It is now over 17 years since a 22-year-old dad-of-two was gunned down on a Sheffield street however his killer remains at large.
James Kamara died in a hail of bullets fired by a masked gunman who opened fire as he leaned out the rear window of a silver Vauxhall Vectra on Brunswick Street, Broomhall, in July 2009.
Four men were charged over the death, with three arrested in Liverpool and one in Spain, but they walked free from court after the case against them collapsed following a trial.
Seventeen years on, justice for James has still not been served.
Detectives who investigated the death believed James was killed as part of a bitter feud between two rival gangs operating in Sheffield.
They claimed James was part of the WS10 “Squaremen” based in Broomhall and that his killers were members of the S3 gang, based in Pitsmoor and Burngreave.
James was sitting in a car at the time when he was shot seven times and three friends were also injured but survived the gun attack.
He died in a pool of blood as friends and passers-by battled in vain to save his life.
A woman who was pushing her three-week-old daughter in a pram at the time of the shooting threw herself across her baby in a desperate bid to protect the child as gunfire rang out in the city street.
The shooting was described during the trial of the four men charged over the death as a “premeditated and cold-blooded killing”.
But it was also claimed James was not believed to have been the intended target.
James and his friends had been involved in a clash involving a rival gang in Eldon Street, Devonshire Green, 90 minutes before the incident, with the drive-by shooting believed to have been a revenge attack.
Detectives who investigated the case believe a leading member of the Squaremen had been the target and that James was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Anyone with information should call 101.