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| An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 16-year-old boy who was found shot dead in Sheffield, police have said. | An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 16-year-old boy who was found shot dead in Sheffield, police have said. |
| Jonathan Matondo was killed in a playground on Nottingham Cliff in the Burngreave area of Sheffield on Wednesday night. | |
| A post-mortem examination showed he had died from a single shot to the head. | |
| Police said the suspect was arrested at his home in Burngreave on Friday morning and was being held in custody. | |
| Sheffield's police commander Ch Supt Jon House said: "This arrest is a direct result of community involvement and we hope to make further arrests. | |
| He was only 16 - much too young to die - and much loved by his friends, family and the community Armand Vibila, Jonathan Matondo's uncle | |
| "Hopefully this will encourage other people to come forward and give us more information. | |
| "This weekend there will be armed and unarmed officers patrolling the Burngreave area to show how seriously we are taking this and to assure the community that we will not tolerate gun crime in our city." | |
| On Thursday, the victim's uncle Armand Vibila had called for people to help catch his nephew's killers. | |
| He said: "He was only 16 - much too young to die - and much loved by his friends, family and the community." | |
| Speaking alongside Mr Vibila at a news conference, the Reverend Jack Kinsiona said the murdered teenager had expressed ambitions to become a preacher. | |
| Mr Kinsiona, from the Light of Christ Church in Burngreave, cried as he spoke about the youngster. | |
| He said: "Jonathan was a great person, he had been to our church. . . I am crying now . . . I want to ask the government to find who killed Jonathan, because Jonathan was very popular in the church." |