Chris Kaba shooting: Dramatic moment man killed by Met guns down rival gang member

Dramatic CCTV captured the moment gunned down a rival gang member in a packed just six days before he was .

Kaba, 24, who had a string of convictions for violence and possession of weapons, can be seen shooting Brandon Malutshi at point-blank range as terrified revellers run for cover. The brazen gunman, wearing a balaclava and grey tracksuit, then calmly pursues his target across the streets of east London as he runs for his life.

Details of the shocking attack can now be reported after during a police stop on September 6, 2022. Jurors were not told of the nightclub shooting the week before after Mr Justice Goss rejected an application by Mr Blake's barrister for it to be included in the evidence.

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They were also unaware that Kaba had a long list of convictions starting aged just 13. The thug was jailed for four years in 2019 for possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence after shots were fired in Canning Town, east London.

A year later he was sentenced to five months jail for possession of a knife and failing to stop for police. Five months before he was shot, Kaba was handed a 28-day domestic violence protection order relating to the mother of his unborn child.

Shocking CCTV shows the moment scores of terrified clubbers ran for cover as Kaba fired a revolver that had been smuggled into the Notting Hill Carnival afterparty at the Oval Space club in Hackney, east London on 30 August 2022. Malutshi, then 25, survived the attack, despite losing large amounts of blood from gunshot wounds to both thighs.

He was a member of the so-called 17 gang, given its name after the murder of his 17-year-old brother Jordan Malutshi in a nightclub in Reading on July 1, 2017. Kaba's rival 67 mob were locked in a bloody drug turf war with the group, based in the Wandsworth Road area of south west London, an Old Bailey trial heard in February.

CCTV played to the court showed Kaba and his gang entering the club carrying nitrous oxide canisters and balloons. The handgun was smuggled past searches and scanners in a manbag by fellow 67 member Marcus Pottinger, 30.

Pottinger had previously worked at the venue and was seen shaking hands and hugging security staff. Once inside the club, the bag could be seen on CCTV in the possession of another gang member, 31-year-old Shemiah Bell.

The group are filmed casually drinking and chatting at the packed bar, as unsuspecting clubbers dance next to them. Masked Kaba is then seen going to Bell, who himself makes a gun signal with his hand, before the bag is handed over.

Kaba slips on a single black glove and puts his hood up. He repeatedly looks in the direction of Malutshi who is a few feet away wearing a black puffer jacket. The gunman then heads towards his unsuspecting target, who is standing next to a bespectacled woman looking at her phone. Kaba faces his victim from a few feet and raises his right arm before firing.

Malutshi stumbles backwards as a result of the force of the blast. He then runs for his life for the exit, desperately pushing his way through the packed dance floor. Kaba calmly strolls back to his group at the bar before following his target out of the club. As staff cower and terrified onlookers run, Kaba jogs out, followed by his gang who are still carrying their drinks.

A woman falls in the doorway and is trampled on by the stampeding crowd before being picked up just as Kaba squeezes past them, the gun bag still tucked under his left arm. A camera outside shows Malutshi sprinting away along with panicked clubbers who push over two metal crowd barriers in their desperation to escape.

Kaba appears 18 seconds later, passing within inches of a female security guard who is talking into a radio. A few minutes later another camera catches Malutshi appearing to believe he had escaped.

He walks up to a parked car before spotting Kaba who charges at him from across the road with his gun raised. Kaba fires a number of shots and hits Malutshi in the right buttock as he sprints along the pavement.

The gunman is later filmed walking back to the club where he gets into the back seat of a waiting Range Rover. Footage from another camera on a nearby street shows the victim bleeding heavily as he attempts to get into a parked minicab.

Malutshi leans against the car as blood pumps from the jeans of his right leg and quickly forms a pool by his feet. He staggers and collapses as a pool begins to form around him on the pavement.

Police arrived quickly along with an ambulance helicopter and Malutshi was taken to Royal London Hospital. He was treated with anti-sickness medication, tetanus booster, intravenous painkillers, antibiotics, a single unit of blood transfusion and dressings.

A bullet had passed through the front of his left thing, leaving a 15mm exit wound at the back of the leg. The second shot had gone through the back of his right thigh, narrowly missing major arteries.

Malutshi discharged himself from hospital later that evening against doctors orders, a small bullet fragment still lodged in his right leg. Six days later Kaba was shot dead after his Audi was stopped by specialist firearms officers in Streatham Hill, south west London, after it was linked to a shooting in nearby Brixton the night before.

Mr Blake did not know Kaba was driving the car and the vehicle had not been linked to the nightclub shooting. Pottinger and Bell were both convicted by a jury of wounding with intent and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence after a three month trial in February 2024.

Pottinger was jailed for nine years while Bell was handed a ten year sentence. Another close associate of Kaba, 28-year-old Connel Bamgboye was jailed for five years and six months after he was convicted of the firearms offence.

Justice Simon Mayo told the court that it was accepted that Kaba was the gunman. He said there were many clubbers standing next to the victim who could have suffered "death or serious injury" when Kaba opened fire.

The judge said: "Having spotted Malutshi in the nightclub, I am sure Kaba decided he was going to shoot him." The shooting came as the 67 gang had been battling for control over a county lines drug dealing network.

Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC said: "The case involves these defendants targeting Brandon Malutshi. We say that they targeted him as someone whom they wanted to be shot dead.`"

At Pottinger's flat police found two .32 antique revolvers which were both in working order. Bamgboye and Bell of Clapham and Pottinger, of Brixton were all cleared of attempted murder. They were originally charged with conspiring with Kaba to murder Malutshi but that charge was dropped.

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