5yr old Nigerian boy shot& stabbed in his home after being mistaken for gang member

5yr old Nigerian boy shot& stabbed
in his home after being mistaken for
gang member
A 15 year-old boy named Kieran Obazee was shot
and stabbed on Friday Nov. 22 at his east London
home by gang members in what police believe
may have been a case of mistaken identity, Daily
Mail reports. Fortunately, Kieran survived the
vicious attack and but is in a serious condition in
hospital.
Five men wearing balaclavas and armed with
kives and a gun forced their way into the
home in Plaistow just before 3am on Friday.
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on
suspicion of attempted murder. Detectives
believe the attackers were looking for a
member of a gang and attacked him by
mistake.
This morning a Scotland Yard spokesperson
said: 'The person who may have been
involved in a gang was staying at the
address and they may have been the target,
but the boy who was attacked had no
criminal background.'
Shocked residents of the estate in Plaistow told
how they rushed to the injured boy's aid after his
terrified mum ran door to door screaming for help.
One neighbour told how they administered first
aid.
The neighbour, who did not want to be identified,
said: 'It was quiet on Thursday night, all I heard
was the banging as they booted the door in and
then another bang, but it didn't sound like a gun
shot to me at the time.'
The neighbour said they could see a woman
banging on other neighbours' doors and screaing
'please help my son' when they looked into the
street.
Detectives believe the attackers were looking for
a member of a gang and attacked the teenager by
mistake
The neighbour said: 'There was no sound of
screeching tyres so they must have run or cycled
off after attacking him.
'I ran down and we went into their house, he was
lying on the landing floor and there was a lot of
blood on the carpet and on the wall.
'His mum and sister had wrapped his leg up to
stop the bleeding, the people trying to help him
were panicking so I took over.
'I kept him talking, he was going into shock and
was really confused. He was bleeding a lot from
his lower right calf and his sister was begging the
paramedics to come quicker over the phone.
Paramedics arrived at the scene before taking the
teenager, the son of a biochemist, to hospital.
The neighbour said: 'It felt like ages before the
paramedics arrived, I was so scared that there
was a 15-year-old boy who was bleeding out.
'Thank God he's ok, he seemed like a regular lad
from a regular family, it's so shocking.
'They were just a normal, nice family, who kept
themselves to themselves. I don't know why they
would attack him, there's been no-one like that
hanging around their house.'
A police spokesman said: ‘Police patrols have
been increased in the area in order to provide
reassurance to the local community.’
The Trident Gang Crime Command are
investigating the incident.
Culled from Daily Mail