Heartbroken mum held son’s ‘ice-cold body’ in the street after hearing gunshots

Keon Lincoln was hunted down and stabbed by the gang earlier than a 14-year-old boy brandishing a revolver stood over him and blasted him in the abdomen, Birmingham Crown Court reported

A mum has relived the second she felt a “chill” by means of her veins as she held her son’s “ice chilly” physique exterior their dwelling.

Sharmaine Lincoln has echoes of the gunshots ringing out in her head as her boy Keon was killed on their doorstep in Handsworth, West Midlands.

The 15-year-old was hunted down and stabbed by a gang – earlier than a 14-year-old boy brandishing a revolver stood over him and blasted him in the abdomen, Birmingham Mail reported.

The attackers fled the scene in a automotive which crashed right into a home a brief distance away.

Today at Birmingham Crown Court 4 youngsters have been convicted of homicide, together with Yussuf Mustapha who fired the deadly shot.

They have been sentenced to life in jail at Birmingham Crown Court.

A fifth was locked up for 12 years for manslaughter.

Ahead of their sentence, an emotive assertion from Sharmaine was learn to the courtroom.

In it she detailed the second she discovered her boy and the horrifying each day influence on her life.

“I’m in a nightmare I can not get up from,” her assertion learn.

“A bit of soul has been taken from me. I hear the phrases his coronary heart has stopped. Then I hear the phrases: ‘I’m sorry, we tried the whole lot we might’.

“I really feel the chill by means of my veins as I held my boy’s ice-cold physique. I noticed my stunning boy’s physique being lowered into the floor.”

She mentioned she had been left together with her feelings every single day after the “heartless, evil monsters got down to flip a household’s world the wrong way up”.

“Gunshots ring in my ears realizing one among them finally ended my son’s life,” she mentioned.

“I miss my boy a lot that it bodily hurts. I’m nonetheless unable to return to phrases with the truth you are gone for good.

“I can solely hope there’ll come a day when the mindless homicide of youngsters will come to an finish.”

Gunman Mustapha, who was sentenced to life, was ordered to serve a minimal time period of 16 years.

A 16-year-old, who can’t be named, will serve a minimal time period of 17 years whereas 18-year-olds Michael Ugochukwu and Tahjgeem Breakenridge have been ordered to serve 19 years earlier than being eligible for launch.

A fifth man, Kieron Donaldson, 18, of Aston Lane, Perry Barr, was convicted of manslaughter after it was discovered he supplied the knives used to kill Keon.

He was sentenced to 12 years in a younger offender’s institute.

In sentencing, Judge William Davis mentioned: “Keon Lincoln aged 15 was murdered near his household dwelling in Linwood Road, Handsworth by 5 younger males.

“They had arrived in a stolen automotive. Four of them had knives with which they attacked Keon. One had a revolver. He shot Keon in the stomach as Keon lay on the floor. That was the deadly wound.

“Less than a minute after they arrived the 5 males had left in the stolen automotive. Keon’s mom was in the household dwelling. She heard the photographs.

“She went out to search out her son dying on the pavement. Not solely has she been robbed of her son when he was solely 15 but additionally she had expertise the trauma of watching him die.

“As she places it in her VPS “I really feel the chill by means of my veins as I hug my boy’s ice chilly physique”.

“When a 15 yr previous boy is killed in that method the first query might be Why? That query has by no means been answered. That doesn’t imply that the homicide of Keon was motiveless.

“It merely signifies that neither the jury nor I’ve any notion of what the motive was.

“However, the method that the homicide was deliberate and carried out is sort of clear.”

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