Fears of 'summer of bloodshed' in turf war after boy shot dead in park

FAMILIES living close to a park where a 15-year-old boy was shot dead today said they fear a “summer of bloodshed” as a west London turf war ramps up.

- John Dunne and Martin Bentham

Gangs from Harrow Road and Golborne Road, Ladbroke Grove — separated only by a bridge — are locked in an escalating conflict, according to residents who fear that victim Rene Graham could be followed by others.

Rene, 15, was shot at a family fun day at Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance park near Ladbroke Grove at about 7.20pm on Sunday evening, in what witnesses described as an “assassination” carried out by a killer who leapt from a bush to open fire.