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| Officers hunt city centre gunman | Officers hunt city centre gunman |
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| Police are hunting a gunman who shot a 17-year-old boy in the middle of a shopping parade in Nottingham. | Police are hunting a gunman who shot a 17-year-old boy in the middle of a shopping parade in Nottingham. |
| Shoppers saw Nathan Williams shot in the chest as he was cycling past the Bridgeway shops in the city's Meadows area on Tuesday lunchtime. | |
| A post mortem examination found he died from a gunshot wound to the chest. | |
| Mr Williams had been associated with a past manslaughter case where a man died but police said this did not form part of the current murder inquiry. | |
| In April 2006, a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his age, admitted the manslaughter of 48-year-old Kamal Raza Butt who was found collapsed on Hope Close in the Meadows in July 2005. | |
| Mr Butt was said to have collapsed after an argument with a group of youths about a cigarette. | |
| Mr Williams was also charged with manslaughter but the prosecution against him was dropped due to lack of evidence. | |
| 'Answers in community' | |
| Supt Paul Cottee, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: "The investigation into this murder is continuing and we believe the answers lie in the Meadows community. | |
| "The victim was killed just after midday in a busy shopping centre and there will be people who will have seen what happened who have not yet spoken to us." | |
| He urged anyone with any information to contact police as soon as possible. | |
| Witnesses say they saw the gunman, who may have had a row with Mr Williams before the attack, riding away on the victim's bike after shooting him. | |
| Police have increased their presence in the Meadows area and a fingertip search, as well as door-to-door inquiries are being carried out. | |
| It's got to stop - it's getting too frequent now Dale Beccan | It's got to stop - it's getting too frequent now Dale Beccan |
| One resident, who did not want to be named, said: "I think it's disgusting, there's kids playing and everyone's seen it. | One resident, who did not want to be named, said: "I think it's disgusting, there's kids playing and everyone's seen it. |
| "People are walking past the shops in broad daylight and they've seen this." | "People are walking past the shops in broad daylight and they've seen this." |
| Alan Simpson, MP for Nottingham South, said he was shocked by the nature of the crime. | Alan Simpson, MP for Nottingham South, said he was shocked by the nature of the crime. |
| "As I understand it the lad was on his bike in the middle of the precinct when he was approached by another youth who, at point blank range, pulled a gun and shot him in the chest. He then took the bike and rode off. | "As I understand it the lad was on his bike in the middle of the precinct when he was approached by another youth who, at point blank range, pulled a gun and shot him in the chest. He then took the bike and rode off. |
| "It seems to me you can't get much more brazen than that," he said. | "It seems to me you can't get much more brazen than that," he said. |
| Pay respects | Pay respects |
| Dale Beccan, father of 14-year-old Danielle Beccan who was gunned down in a drive-by attack in the city in 2004, visited the scene of Nottingham's latest shooting to pay his respects. | |
| "It's got to stop - it's getting too frequent now," he said. | "It's got to stop - it's getting too frequent now," he said. |
| "If kids in this country are going to try and be like kids in America, with people walking round with guns in the middle of the day, then we should start handing out sentences like they do in America with 200 years for murder." | "If kids in this country are going to try and be like kids in America, with people walking round with guns in the middle of the day, then we should start handing out sentences like they do in America with 200 years for murder." |
| Police said a post-mortem examination would be carried out on the teenager on Wednesday, after which more details of the shooting would be released. | Police said a post-mortem examination would be carried out on the teenager on Wednesday, after which more details of the shooting would be released. |