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A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by plusQueen: 11:26pm On Oct 08, 2008
Man shot three times in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt
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A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.

Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'.

The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting 'I f***ing hate n*****s' and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.




The man then left the shop but when Mr Egwuatu re-emerged, the attacker was waiting for him in broad daylight with a threatening-looking dog and holding a gun behind his back.

Realising what had sparked the increasingly violent assault, the terrified Mr Egwuatu zipped up his jacket to cover the image of Mr Obama and walked to his car.

But the shaven-headed man, who was white,  followed Mr Egwuatu and after pulling open the passenger door pointed the gun at him.

After pleading with the man to leave him alone, the married former street warden put the keys in the ignition and turned the engine on.

The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder.

Fearing for his life and bleeding heavily, Mr Egwuatu raced away in his car and found somewhere safe to call for help.

He was taken to hospital and later sent to have a piece of metal removed from his jaw.

Mr Egwuatu, a data analyst with Croydon Council, said: 'The venom in his voice was frightening.

'He was telling me that he was going to kill me.

'I couldn't believe it was happening - and just because I was wearing an Obama T-shirt. He was trying to make me walk somewhere quieter, saying: 'I've got something for you,' and 'I'm going to kill you.'

He added: 'Obama inspires me, his educational track record alone is quite unbelievable - that is why I was wearing the T-shirt.

'I did not think for one minute it could stir up such powerful feelings of hatred and I never said a word to him.'

Mr Egwuatu's wife, Angela, 35, said neither of them had experienced anything like it during their childhood in Nigeria.


Mrs Egwuatu, an immigration officer, said: 'At first my feelings were pure horror and now it is pure anger.

'If he had been carrying a real gun I would have been a widow. It is just ridiculous.

'I don't know how a person's mentality works. Why would a T-shirt get you to the point where you want to shoot someone.'

To the untrained eye, ball-bearing guns like the one used in the attack look every bit like a real firearm.

The potentially lethal weapons are often converted by criminals to fire real bullets, and can be bought easily in high-street shops and on websites.

The Met said it was investigating the incident, which took place in South Norwood, and that police searched a nearby house which the attacker was seen going into.


No one has been arrested.
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Re: A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by plusQueen: 11:56pm On Oct 08, 2008
what a world we live in
Re: A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by grafikdon: 12:02am On Oct 09, 2008
Imbeciles are everywhere. . .

But are we sure that nutcase is not an American on vacation? lipsrsealed lipsrsealed
Re: A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by blackspade(m): 12:15am On Oct 09, 2008
So sad, thank the lord he spared another life. Hopefully the guy who did it is caught soon, especially with all the CCTV cameras they have around London, I'm confident he won't be able to run free for that long.
Re: A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by kokorunna(m): 11:00am On Oct 10, 2008
London is getting worse in terms of gun crime, I don't Lagos is as bad as this.

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Re: A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by janami(f): 11:42am On Oct 10, 2008
Lagos has never been as bad as london in gun crimes except we dnt rule out our trigger happy policemen
Re: A Nigerian Shot In London Because Of Obama by PhysicsMHD(m): 8:50am On Nov 29, 2010
Crazy.

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