Dramatic CCTV footage has captured the moment 24-year-old Chris Kaba shot a rival gang member in a crowded nightclub.
Kaba, who had a history of violent offences and weapon possession, can be seen firing at Brandon Malutshi at close range, causing panic-stricken club-goers to flee. The balaclava-clad gunman then chases his victim through the streets of east London.
Shocking details of this attack have now been revealed following the acquittal of Met Police marksman Martyn Blake on Monday for Kaba’s murder during a police stop on September 6, 2022.
The jury was not informed about the nightclub shooting that occurred the previous week after Mr Justice Goss dismissed an application by Mr Blake’s barrister for it to be included in the evidence.
The jury was also kept in the dark about Kaba’s extensive criminal record, which began when he was only 13 years old. In 2019, he was sentenced to four years in prison for possessing an imitation firearm with the intention to cause fear of violence following a shooting incident in Canning Town, east London.
A year later, he received a five-month jail sentence for knife possession and failing to stop for the police. Just five months before he was shot, Kaba was issued a 28-day domestic violence protection order related to the mother of his unborn child, reports the Mirror.
Horrifying CCTV footage shows how Kaba discharged a smuggled revolver at the Notting Hill Carnival afterparty held at the Oval Space club in Hackney, east London on 30 August 2022. Despite suffering severe blood loss from gunshot wounds to both thighs, Malutshi, then 25, survived the attack.
He was part of the notorious 17 gang, named after his younger brother Jordan Malutshi, who was tragically murdered at the age of 17 in a Reading nightclub on July 1, 2017. The Old Bailey trial in February heard that Kaba’s rival group, the 67 mob, were embroiled in a violent drug territory dispute with the 17 gang, based in the Wandsworth Road area of south west London.
The court was shown CCTV footage of Kaba and his gang entering the club with nitrous oxide canisters and balloons. Fellow 67 member Marcus Pottinger, 30, managed to sneak the handgun past security checks and scanners concealed in a bag.
Pottinger, a former employee of the venue, was seen greeting and embracing security staff. Once inside the club, the bag was spotted on CCTV being carried by another gang member, 31 year old Shemiah Bell.
The gang are captured on film casually drinking and socialising at the crowded bar, oblivious clubbers dancing nearby. Kaba, now masked, is then seen approaching Bell, who makes a gun gesture with his hand before handing over the bag.
Kaba dons a single black glove and pulls up his hood, repeatedly glancing towards Malutshi who stands a few feet away clad in a black puffer jacket. The gunman then approaches his unsuspecting target, who is standing next to a woman engrossed in her phone.
From a short distance, Kaba raises his right arm and fires.
The force of the blast sends Malutshi stumbling backwards. He then bolts towards the exit, frantically pushing through the crowded dance floor.
Kaba nonchalantly returns to his group at the bar before trailing his target out of the club.
A woman falls in the doorway, trampled by the fleeing crowd before being lifted just as Kaba slips past them, the gun bag still tucked under his left arm. An exterior camera captures Malutshi sprinting away alongside panicked club-goers who knock over two metal barriers in their desperate bid for safety.
Kaba emerges 18 seconds later, brushing past a female security guard engaged in radio communication.
He approaches a parked car before spotting Kaba charging at him from across the street, gun raised. Kaba fires several shots, striking Malutshi in the right buttock as he dashes along the pavement.
The shooter is later seen on camera returning to the club and climbing into the back seat of a waiting Range Rover. Another CCTV camera captures the victim, heavily bleeding, as he tries to get into a parked minicab.
Malutshi can be seen leaning against the car, blood gushing from his right leg and quickly pooling at his feet. He stumbles and falls as a pool of blood forms around him on the pavement.
Emergency services, including an air ambulance, arrived swiftly at the scene and Malutshi was rushed to Royal London Hospital. There, he received anti-sickness medication, a tetanus booster, intravenous painkillers, antibiotics, a single unit of blood transfusion and dressings.
One bullet had passed through the front of his left thigh, leaving a 15mm exit wound at the back of the leg. The second shot had penetrated the back of his right thigh, narrowly missing major arteries.
Despite medical advice, Malutshi discharged himself from the hospital that same evening with a small bullet fragment still lodged in his right leg. Six days later, Kaba was fatally shot after his Audi was pulled over by specialist firearms officers in Streatham Hill, south west London, following its connection to a shooting in nearby Brixton the previous night.
Mr Blake was unaware that Kaba was behind the wheel, and the car had not been connected to the nightclub shooting. Following a three-month trial in February 2024, both Pottinger and Bell were found guilty by a jury of wounding with intent and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
Pottinger received a nine-year prison sentence, while Bell was given a ten-year term. Another close associate of Kaba, 28 year old Connel Bamgboye, was sentenced to five years and six months after being convicted of the firearms offence.
Justice Simon Mayo informed the court that it was accepted that Kaba was the shooter. He highlighted that many club-goers standing near the victim could have faced “death or serious injury” when Kaba began firing.
The judge stated: “Having spotted Malutshi in the nightclub, I am sure Kaba decided he was going to shoot him.”
The shooting occurred amidst a power struggle within the 67 gang over control of a county lines drug dealing network.
Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC stated: “The case involves these defendants targeting Brandon Malutshi. We say that they targeted him as someone whom they wanted to be shot dead.`”.
Two antique revolvers, both in working condition, were discovered at Pottinger’s flat.
Bamgboye and Bell from Clapham, and Pottinger from Brixton, were all acquitted of attempted murder. They were initially charged with conspiring with Kaba to murder Malutshi, but this charge was later dropped.
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