Brixton shooting: Drill rapper and Deliveroo driver named as victims

Eyewitnesses told the BBC they heard 12 gunshots during the shooting on Railton Road, Brixton

The son of a boxing promoter has become the latest in a string of drill rappers who have died in violent attacks in London.

Lamar Scott, 27, who performed as Perm, was shot after a car chase in Brixton, south London, on Sunday.

His father is boxing promoter Dean Whyte who represents heavyweight Dillian Whyte, PA Media agency reports.

Deliveroo driver Guilherme Messias da Silva, 23, also died after he was knocked off his moped during the chase.

No arrests have been made.

Speaking to Globo, nursing technician Rosângela Messias de Sousa, 46, said she "went into despair, screamed, fainted" after learning about the death of her son.

"It's very sad, my heart is bleeding. It hurts everything," she said, adding that her son had moved to London to work.

Promoter Dean Whyte paid tribute to his son on social media

Detectives believe Mr Scott got out of the car after it crashed with the moped and other vehicles, before he was chased by another man and fatally shot.

The gunman is then thought to have got back into his car and fled the area. Police said he was still being hunted for.

The killings are the latest in a spate of gun attacks in the capital, including a triple shooting in Ilford, east London, on 25 October where Saydi Abu Sheikh, 23, who rapped under the name Giddy, and Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 32, who used the name Shifty, both died.

In September another rapper, Maximillian Kusi-Owusu, 29, known as M Lo, was shot in Kensington High Street, and on the final day of the Notting Hill Carnival in August, Takayo Nembhard, known as TKorStretch, was fatally stabbed.

There were another three fatal shootings in London in the space of six days in July.

Camilo Palacio, 23, in Wood Green, north London, and Sam Brown, 28, in Cheney Row Park, Waltham Forest, east London, both died in separate attacks on 24 July.

Daneche Tison, 26, was killed in Bruckner Street, Queen's Park, west London, on 19 July.

The following month, on 13 August, Kacey Boothe, 25, was shot outside a child's birthday party in Walthamstow, east London.

According to Met Police figures, there were 12 fatal shootings among 134 homicides investigated by the force during the whole of 2021.

Between 31 October last year and 19 July this year, there were also no fatal shootings in London.

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