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Shooting linked to street fracas | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
A shooting in which a Sheffield man was killed has been linked to an earlier disturbance between two groups of men. | |
James Kamara, 22, of Pitsmoor, died of multiple wounds after being shot with a semi-automatic weapon in Brunswick Street, Broomhall, on Wednesday night. | |
Police said the shooting, in which three other men in their early 20s were seriously injured, was gang-related. | |
Two large groups of males were earlier involved in an incident in Devonshire Street in which glasses were thrown. | |
Detectives said the confrontation in Devonshire Street, at about 1700 BST, was believed to have lasted about five minutes. | |
At about 1830 BST the four men were shot in Brunswick Street. | |
Mr Kamara was taken to the city's Northern General Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. | |
The gunmen used a silver Vauxhall Vectra as a getaway vehicle | |
Initial post-mortem test results revealed he had died from multiple gunshot wounds to his body. | |
A 21-year-old from Sheffield, who suffered serious injuries, remains in hospital under police protection. Two other Sheffield men, aged 20 and 23, were treated in hospital for minor injuries. | |
After the shooting, which police described as an "isolated and targeted attack", the offenders are believed to have fled in a silver Vauxhall Vectra, registration FJ52 GWP. | |
They drove through the Broomhall estate on Collegiate Crescent, Park Lane and Clarkehouse Road. | |
The partially burnt-out car was found abandoned later that evening behind a pub off Whitehouse Lane, Walkley. | |
A spokesman said: "Anyone who saw a car of this make and model or any other suspicious behaviour after 6pm around Brunswick Street should call South Yorkshire Police." |