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Drive-by murder 'linked to earlier row'
POLICE have released the first picture of the 22-year-old man killed by multiple gunshot wounds in a drive-by shooting in Broomhall, Sheffield, earlier this week.
James Kamara, from the Pitsmoor area of the city, was killed and three other men injured in what police say was a targeted, gang-related attack at 6.30pm on Wednesday, July 1.
A 21-year-old man who was shot in the stomach, hand and foot during the incident is currently in a "stable" condition in the Northern General Hospital. The two other men who were shot, both in their early twenties and from Sheffield, suffered minor injuries and have since been released from hospital.
Yesterday, police officers said the gunmen are believed to have fled from the scene, in Brunswick Street, in a silver Vauxhall Vectra, registration plate FJ52 GWP, and travelled through the Broomhall estate on Collegiate Crescent, Park Lane and Clarkehouse Road.
The Vectra was later found abandoned and partially burnt out less than three miles away, behind a pub off Whitehouse Lane in Walkley, later that evening.
The shooting is thought to be linked to an altercation that took place in Devonshire Street, in Sheffield city centre, earlier on Wednesday evening. At about 5pm glasses were allegedly thrown during a confrontation between two large groups of men. A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: "The groups of men were thought to have been involved in a verbal dispute near Devonshire Green."
So far, one man has been arrested in connection with the attack, but police have said he is not "a principal suspect".
Anyone with information about the Vauxhall Vectra, or the events on Devonshire Green or Brunswick Street, should contact detectives on 0114 296 3497.
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