The mother of a privately-educated Nigerian teenager shot dead outside a cinema, has revealed how she warned him against going out.

According to EveningStandard, Kelvin Odunuyi, 19, was gunned down as he stood with friends at the entrance of the Vue cinema in Wood Green, at just after 12.30am on Thursday.

Witnesses described seeing two masked men on a moped ride past before one opened fire. Mr Odunuyi, a rapper who performed under the name DipDat and was also known as Lampz, was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later.

The killing, the first fatal shooting of a teenager in London in 2018, is thought to be part of an escalating “postcode war” between gangs in Wood Green and nearby Tottenham.

It was claimed that Mr Odunuyi was not a gang member, but socialised with people who were. His mother, Afishetu Oniru, said he was in the “wrong place at the wrong time”.

She said: “He was a lovely jovial boy. He was clever and loved by all who knew him…he had everything going for him.”

Oniru said relatives, including his father who runs a property business in Nigeria, had paid her son’s fees at the prestigious £26,000-a-year Fulneck School in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, and that he had ambitions to work in the oil industry.

She said: “I have always lived in London but when we moved to Wood Green for a short time I got scared for my family. We now live in Harrow and I told him not to go back to Wood Green to see friends.

But he did and now he is dead after being shot dead in a random attack. Police said it was wrong place at wrong time. I am devastated. I knew he would be safe at home with me but he went there and now he is dead.” There have been no arrests.
https://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/i-warned-him-mom-of-nigerian-teenager.html

it's so so unfortunate that our kids are not thought in the way of the Lord again. now the boy want to hit fast like other artists in u. k. not knowing his days are numbered. rip young man.

it's so pathetic and painful in this generation, the young lads are not growing old to enjoy their destinies again. rip young lad.

Rip Kelvin

johnnyvid:
it's so pathetic and painful in this generation, the young lads are not growing old to enjoy their destinies again. rip young lad.

Looks like he chose his destiny.

When your impressionable son start displaying gang signs then u start worrying.
Been there.

Too late 4that.

RIP

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Painful

Sad. RIP Kelvin.

Sad! Avoidable death!

He didn't join a gang but was always with gang members.

No where is completely safe, we are all product of Gods Grace

Gun crimes in the Uk are rear unlike US....then someone will potray there like heaven and gang crime are often hard to solve...RIP

Too bad, so sad

he had everything going for him ,really , it does not look like it

obey ur parents

johnnyvid:
it's so so unfortunate that our kids are not thought in the way of the Lord again. now the boy want to hit fast like other artists in u. k. not knowing his days are numbered. rip young man.

This is absolutely not necessary..

He's privileged, and there's nothing wrong with being ambitious.

This is just a case of the unknown... And not necessarily because of any crime he has committed in the past.

N

Gang dress codes, hand signals, tatoos, whistling signals, hand shakes etc...This signs are always there to identify wayward kids but many parents don't notice as they are not connected to the popular culture their kids subscribe to.

In the stark reality of the street code, there's really no such thing as "he's not a gang member but hangs out with them...". A member is a member and an affiliate is jolly good game for mop up when the streets get hot.

The guys Lampz was thugging with are criminals and they do bad things. He may have seen it ll as just a game, being a rapper and in need of some degree of street cred. However, the reality is that it gets hot every now and then and when it does, hell bent killers don't differentiate between rival members or their associates.

That sound, ratatatatata...and the aftermath is always sorrow, blood and tears...as another good guy hits the ground.

RIP Lampz

Cult revenge.

RIP kid..

This young man's death is a gruesome representation of certain societal facts that we have refused to look into. Things like cultism, gangism and sectism should be regarded as a danger to the balance of things in our society and as such should be avoided.


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Wrong place at the wrong time my foot!! The kid na comfirmed gang member.

black people and foolisheness is inseprable

idiots

RIP kayode

johnnyvid:
it's so so unfortunate that our kids are not thought in the way of the Lord again. now the boy want to hit fast like other artists in u. k. not knowing his days are numbered. rip young man.

its sooooo Unfortunate Jonny